Governor Kay Ivey announced today that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted April unemployment rate is 2.2%, down from March’s rate of 2.3%, and below April 2022’s rate of 2.5%.
U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, on May 15, released a statement reacting to an NBC News report indicating that President Biden is preparing to reverse the Air Force’s decision to name Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, as the permanent location for the headquarters of U.S. Space Command.
Says, ‘Alabama must always support our police, prioritize public safety, and ensure that we give our officers the resources and tools they need to protect our communities’
Alabama's death count did not exceed the upper threshold of death expectancy during the week ending May 6, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
May 15, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) and 37 Republican colleagues to introduce the Back the Blue Act as the country marks Peace Officers Memorial Day and National Police Week.
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reintroduced the Veterans Health Care Freedom Act to give veterans more flexibility when making medical decisions and greater access to the free-market health care system.
May 11, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), the Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, this morning joined U.S. Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) and 12 colleagues at a press conference where they discussed the growing crisis at the southern border as the Biden Administration prepares to stop exercising Title 42 authorities at midnight today.
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Alabama’s voice on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) in announcing the discovery of a memorandum that exposes an effort by Julie Su, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be labor secretary, to obstruct immigration law enforcement.
May 10, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) emphasized the growing mental health crisis in America during a recent hearing of the Subcommittee for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.