WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, issued the following news release: Today, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Climate Policy Center published a research brief demonstrating that Congressman Greg Casar's (D-Texas) Connect the Grid Act could have prevented almost all of the blackouts ordered by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) during Winter Storm Uri. * * * E&E News: Blackouts could be slashed if Texas joins the U.S. grid -- study The more PR

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released the following testimony by Jaines Andrades, a nurse practitioner at Baystate Medical Center, from a hearing dated May 2, 2024, entitled "What Can Congress Do to Address the Severe Shortage of Minority Health Care Professionals and the Maternal Health Crisis?": * * * Chairman Sanders and Ranking Member Dr. Cassidy, I am Jaines Andrades, a nurse practitioner at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massac more PR

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wrote to the Director of the U.S. Trustee Program (USTP), calling for USTP to move to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee to run the company in place of Steward's current management as quickly as possible, and to monitor the hospitals' bankruptcy proceedings to protect patients and loc more PR