Press Releases

WASHINGTON - In response to President Joe Biden's first State of the Union Address, Rep. Bruce Westerman (AR-04) released the following statement:

WASHINGTON - House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) released the following statement after introducing the American Energy Independence from Russia Act. 
 

WASHINGTON - Today, Congressmen Bruce Westerman (R-AR), co-lead Fred Keller (R-PA), and 11 cosponsors introduced the IRS PRIORITIES Act to address the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) overwhelming backlog of more than 8 million unprocessed individual tax returns. The bill prohibits the IRS from hiring additional tax enforcement personnel until it processes the tax returns from the past two years. The Members released the following statements:

WASHINGTON - Congressman Westerman (AR-04) recently cosponsored the bipartisan "Invest to Protect Act of 2022" to make critical, targeted investments in local police departments and ensure that departments with fewer than 200 police officers have the resources and training needed to keep themselves and their communities safe. The bipartisan bill is led by Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and former sheriff, Congressman John Rutherford (FL-4), with 35 other original cosponsors. The members released the following statements:

WASHINGTON — Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) cosponsored legislation reintroduced today by Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) to ensure seniors, rural communities, and their pharmacists have access to important information about their prescription medications. The Patients' Right to Know Their Medication Act of 2021 would require drug manufacturers to include printed inserts containing drug information when they ship their products to pharmacies.

WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Westerman (R-AR) released the following statement on the one year anniversary of President Biden's inauguration.

WASHINGTON — Today, members of the Republican Healthy Future Task Force Subcommittee on Treatments, Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), Congressmen Brad Wenstrup, D.P.M., (R-Ohio), and John Joyce, M.D., (R-Penn.), released a Request for Information (RFI) from health care stakeholders and other interested parties. The expert feedback received will help inform legislation to supercharge the availability and development of life-saving treatments, devices, and diagnostics while addressing rising patient costs.

WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Congressman Bruce Westerman (AR-04) released the following statement.

"Yesterday, I voted for the updated National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)," said Congressman Westerman. "As I anticipated, I'm happy to report that the harmful provisions creating Red Flag laws for members of our military and the inclusion of women in the draft were removed.