Manchin, Tuberville Introduce Legislation to Address Name, Image and Likeness in College Sports
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced the Protecting Athletes, Schools, and Sports (PASS) Act of 2023 to protect student-athletes, maintain fair competition and compensation, strengthen transparency, and preserve the time-honored tradition of college sports. Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court decided National Collegiate Athletics Association v. Alston (Alston), this bipartisan legislation would […]
Tuberville Legislation Would Require Senate Confirmation of CDC Director Immediately
“One of the best things we can do to set us up to defeat future pandemics is to give Americans a voice when it comes to leadership at such an important agency.” WASHINGTON — This week, during a U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) markup, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) offered an amendment to the Pandemic and […]
Tuberville Opposes the RECOUP Act
“The unrestricted ability to remove directors and executives on a whim is not a power any government agency or official should have in our country.” WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) authored an op-ed in American Banker outlining his concerns with the Senate Banking Committee’s legislative proposal to empower federal financial regulators in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure. Senator Tuberville argues […]
Tuberville, Colleagues Fight to Protect Americans’ First Amendment Rights Against Government Censorship
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH-04), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in introducing the Free Speech Protection Act that will prohibit federal employees and contractors from using their positions to censor and otherwise attack speech protected […]
Tuberville Leads Hearing as Ranking Member of Ag Subcommittee
Every American deserves access to water that is clean and safe to drink, and functioning wastewater systems to safely dispose of sewage and waste.” WASHINGTON — Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) led a U.S. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (AG) Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy as Ranking Member. The hearing, titled “Rural Water: Modernizing our Community Water Systems” focused on […]
Tuberville Maintains Pentagon Nomination Hold, DoD Fails to Provide Answers
“Let’s stick with the facts. And after today’s briefing it’s clear to me: the Pentagon doesn’t have any facts.” WASHINGTON — In keeping with a pledge he made to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin last December, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) yesterday blocked the twelfth attempt by Senate Democrats to circumvent his delay of military promotions before the U.S. Senate. […]
