Tuberville Promotes 340B Program to Help Alabama Hospitals
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke with witnesses during a Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing about the impacts of the 340B program on hospitals in Alabama. Sen. Tuberville noted the importance of these discounts to the day-to-day operation of many of Alabama’s hospitals. The witnesses included Michelle Rosenberg, Director of Health Care at the U.S. Government Accountability Office; […]
Tuberville Speaks with Mark Cuban, Dr. Smith About Importance of Increasing Transparency to Lower Health Care Costs
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke in a U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing about increasing transparency to lower health care costs. Sen. Tuberville spoke with Mark Cuban, Co-Founder of Cost Plus Drugs, and Dr. Keith Smith, Co-Founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Read Sen. Tuberville’s remarks below or watch on YouTube or Rumble. […]
Tuberville Introduces Alabama’s Nominee for TVA Board of Directors
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced Mr. Randall (Randy) Jones, Alabama’s nominee to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), during his nomination hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). Congress established TVA in 1933 through the TVA Act, which designates a 9-member Board […]
Tuberville Advocates for Forest Owners during Ag Meeting
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced an amendment to the Fix Our Forests Act during a U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee (Ag) business meeting. His amendment consists of the bill text of the Disaster Reforestation Act, which would help landowners recover from the loss of timber after natural disasters. Currently, forest landowners do not have financial assistance […]
Senate Ag Committee Passes Tuberville Legislation to Expand Talladega National Forest
Legislation would expand proclamation boundary by approximately 50,000 acres WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry passed U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) Talladega National Forest Expansion Act in a legislative package with several other U.S. Forest Service lands bills. The Talladega National Forest Expansion Act would expand the proclamation boundary of the Talladega National Forest by approximately 50,000 […]
Tuberville, Cotton Push for English-Only CDL Tests
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) in introducing the Secure Commercial Licensing Act. This legislation will require all commercial driver’s license (CDL) testing to be conducted in English only and allows the Transportation Secretary to suspend or revoke a state’s authority to issue non-domiciled CDLs […]
