U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is continuing to bring the concerns of Alabama’s agriculture industry to the table as the state’s voice on the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (AG) Committee.
May 5, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) this week at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies questioned Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan on the Biden Administration’s overreaching, ambiguous, and job-killing Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in addition to their decision to revoke uses of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Jacob Ryan Davenport, age 30, of Columbiana, for reckless manslaughter. Davenport was convicted in the Shelby County Circuit Court on February 24, 2022.
As Florida becomes the latest state to create an education savings account (ESA) program, an analysis by the Yellowhammer Times shows that Alabama is not one of 11 states that has such a program.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Delewis Antwan Collier, age 40, of Phenix City, for murder. Collier was convicted in the Russell County Circuit Court on May 5, 2022.
May 4, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, yesterday led a hearing on transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) and related drug and human trafficking with officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), the subcommittee’s chairman.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Anthony C. Wu, age 57, of Huntsville, for reckless manslaughter. Wu was convicted in the Madison County Circuit Court on March 30, 2022.
Alabama is among 25 states that have resigned from or are not members of a national voter data group accused of partisanship in its work to expand voter rolls and lacking in transparency, an analysis by the Yellowhammer Times found.
May 3, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joined Fox News’ ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, a bipartisan bill designed to help protect children from the harmful impacts of social media and empower families that the two senators introduced with U.S. Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).