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January 15, 2025 – JERUSALEM, Israel – multiple media outlets are reporting that Israel and Hamas have finally reached a ceasefire and hostage release deal. The impending return of President Donald J. Trump (R) in just five days likely helped hasten the outcome. President-elect Trump posted on his Truth Social account, "WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!" The fate of the hostages had been a key sticking point in the negotiations as Ham...
January 16, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) and Katie Britt (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) in introducing the Offshore Energy Security Act of 2025. The legislation requires the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) to hold two offshore oil and gas lease sales per year for 10 years-resulting in 20 total lease sales. The Biden administration had tried to end oil and gas leasing; but were blocked by Congress and the courts. As it was Bid...
January 17, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) introduced a concurring resolution expressing the sense of Congress that U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai’s closed-door negotiation regarding Annex 14-C of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) is not legally binding unless approved by Congress. The resolution also makes clear the USTR nor any other federal agency can invoke the “joint interpretation” in any leg...
January 17, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Katie Britt's (R-Alabama) S.5, the Laken Riley Act, cleared a final procedural vote, effectively securing the necessary support in the U.S. Senate for final passage. Following the Senate invoking cloture in a 61-35 vote, the legislation is on its way to Senate passage in the coming days. "This bipartisan, bicameral legislation will save lives, and it will help prevent another American family from feeling the pain Laken Riley's loved ones feel e...
January 17, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), a founding member of the Senate Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Caucus, applauded a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to officially ban Red No. 3 from foods, dietary supplements and ingested medicines. Europe has had this ban in place for years due to studies indicating that the commonly used red dyes were a cancer risk. Thie FDA had largely ignored these studies until Sen. Tuberville b...
January 23, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) spoke on the Senate floor in support of Pete Hegseth, President Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Tuberville said that Hegseth will bring much-needed change to the Department of Defense. Sen. Tuberville addressed legislation he reintroduced on Wednesday, the Foreign Adversary Risk Management (FARM) Act. Tuberville said that the FARM Act will help secure America's agricultural industry and food supply cha...
January 24, 2025 - Washington, DC – Democratic leadership has announced that Congressman Shomari Figures (D-AL02) will serve as the Vice Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. This makes Figures the number two Democrat on the committee that will be at the center of addressing key infrastructure issues in Alabama, including securing funding for the critically important I-10 Bay Bridge project in Mobile. "I am incredibly grateful to Tran...
November 8, 2024 - WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and 11 Senate colleagues in sending a letter to multiple federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of State, regarding the elimination of Hamas. The Senators request that the agencies: 1. Immediately freeze the assets of Hamas officials living in Qatar. 2. Extradite several senior Hamas officials currently r...
November 6, 2024 - MONTGOMERY, AL. – the Alabama Farmers Federation congratulated Alabama FarmPAC-endorsed candidates for victories in Tuesday's general election. The organization's grassroots political action committee scored wins in 22 of the 23 races where they had an endorsed candidate. "It was a big night for our country and our state," said Federation President Jimmy Parnell. "Across America, families, farmers and business owners are concerned about the economy, secure borders, national d...
November 14, 2024 - WASHINGTON – Last night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and U.S. Senator Katie Britt's (R-AL) legislation to rename the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Guntersville, Alabama, in honor of Alabama native and Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Ola Lee Mize. "Colonel Ola Lee Mize was a true patriot who embodied the American ideals of courage, selflessness, and honor," said Senator Tuberville. "He d...
November 20, 2024 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Veterans Administration is now retracting previous claim that it was facing a $3 billion shortfall. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and 14 Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC) Chairman Jon Tester (D-Montana), who was recently defeated in his bid for reelection, demanding greater accountability and oversight of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after...
November 21, 2024 – MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) announced that the state of Alabama has successfully executed convicted murderer Carey Dale Grayson at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on Thursday night. Alabama has been on the cutting edge of successfully using nitrogen hypoxia to carry out executions. This was the third nitrogen hypoxia execution performed by the state. Grayson was convicted and unanimously sentenced to death for the mur...
November 22, 2024 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) filed a 24-state amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court' ruling that the Constitution prohibits States from restricting girls' sports teams to biological females. The case arises out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held in September that Arizona's 2022 law likely violates the Equal Protection Clause by not allowing biological males, who falsely claim that they are women-to c...
Annabelle is a one-year-old female Shepherd/Border Collie looking mix, about 50 lbs. She loves attention and being close, also loves to talk to you. Knows how to play fetch, likes squeaky toys. She is good with dogs her size or larger, but a big NO to cats. The adoption fees are $100 for dogs & $50 for cats under one-year-old; cats over one-year-old can be adopted by approved adopters for a fee of their choosing. This adoption fee completely covers the mandatory spay or neuter, basic immunizatio...
December 3, 2024 – MONTGOMERY, AL - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) joined a coalition of 30 current and future state attorneys general urging the United States Senate to swiftly confirm former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as the 87th United States Attorney General. "President Trump made an incredibly wise decision by appointing Pam Bondi as the next United States Attorney General," said Attorney General Marshall. "I have known Pam for a long time, and she possesses the h...
December 5, 2024 -SAN FRANCISCO, AL ‒ USA Today is reporting that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the town of Petrolia in California. Southern Oregon to San Francisco is under a tsunami warning. The quake occurred near California's sparsely populated northern coast. The quake struck on the San Andreas fault, which runs along the coast line. The quake was felt by people across Humbolt County, CA. "Move out of the water, off the beach, and away from harbors, marinas, breakwaters, bays and i...
October 15 -WASHINGTON D.C. – Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Skrmetti. The Biden-Harris administration is using the power of the federal government to challenge two state laws in Tennessee and Kentucky that protect children from being given harmful puberty blockers, hormones, and medically mutilating surgeries. Liberty Counsel said that the High Court's decision could "reverberate beyond this case" affecting how challenges to laws involving t...
October 17, 2024 - Birmingham – Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D- Selma) announced that Birmingham City Schools have been awarded $3.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to expand student access to school-based mental health services. The grant is a part of the Biden-Harris agenda. The unprecedented expansion of federal involvement in the schools is intended to address youth mental health provided under the Biden-Harris Administration through the passage of the Bipartisan Safer C...
October 17, 2024 – Atmore – the state of Alabama executed Derrick Dearman for the senseless murder of a family of five. On Thursday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) told Corrections Commissioner John Hamm that she would not exercise her clemency powers in the case of Derrick Dearman. Ivey directed Hamm to proceed with Mr. Dearman's lawfully imposed death sentence for the 2016 capital murders of Joseph Adam Turner, Robert Lee Brown, Shannon Melissa Randall, Justin Kaleb Reed, Chelsea Marie Ree...
October 21,2024 - MONTGOMERY - Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) is reminding eligible Alabama citizens that today, October 21, 2024, is the deadline to register to vote before the November 5, 2024 General Election. Electronic voter registration may be completed up until 11:59 PM today by visiting https://www.alabamainteractive.org/sos/voter_registration/voterRegistrationWelcome.action. A paper voter registration form may be delivered in person to your local Board of Registrars by the end of...
October 30, 2024 - WASHINGTON - On Sunday we will all have an extra hour to sleep before going to Church; but it will be dark before the typical 9 to 5 worker leaves the office. It is time for our annual switch from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time. As Alabamians prepare to change their clocks this weekend, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) is continuing to advocate for the passage of the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent and end the...
November 4, 2024 – BIRMINGHAM, AL – the University of Alabama University Singers are performing in Birmingham for the first time in many years. Their return to Birmingham will be at t the Cathedral of Saint Paul on Thursday, November 7, 2024, at 7:00pm CST. The concert will begin in the Cathedral Church; however it will then progress to the Great Hall on the second floor of the Cathedral Life Center CLC). The UA University Singers is the premier vocal ensemble in the University of Alabama Sch...
Septembr 9, 2024 – Montgomery - Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) released a statement to remind Alabama voters that county absentee election managers must receive mail-in absentee ballot applications by Tuesday, October 29, 2024. The deadline to return an absentee ballot application in person is Thursday, October 31, 2024. Absentee ballots being returned in-person must be received by the county absentee election manager by close of business on the day before the election. For this election t...
September 11, 2024 -Montgomery- Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) hosted the 55 Correctional Officers set to graduate from the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) Academy. The governor greeted the officers on the steps of the Alabama Governor's Mansion, offered words of gratitude and congratulations and invited them inside for a reception to honor their achievement. "I am proud of the 55 Correctional Officers graduating from the Academy this week and was honored to host them at the Alabama Gove...
Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl released a statement following Sunday's assassination attempt on the life of former President Donald J. Trump (R) at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach. "Today marks an incredibly sad and heartbreaking day in the history of our nation," said Chairman Wahl. "It is tragic beyond words that anyone could believe that taking another person's life could further a political agenda. We must all remember that the individuals we see on...
