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This week, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted in favor of the committee’s markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @ 1:02 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Yesterday, the Senate passed the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act, bipartisan legislation co-sponsored by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) that would crackdown on robocalls
Published: Saturday, May 25th, 2019 @ 1:03 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis co-sponsored the Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act, which would put an end to dangerous sanctuary city policies that forbid local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, even when they wish to do so.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2019 @ 3:57 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Senator Tillis recently applauded the USDA’s decision to select the Research Triangle as one of three finalists to become the new home of the ERS and NIFA.
Published: Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 @ 9:56 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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This week, Senator Tillis (R-NC) joined Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and 23 other senators in sending a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee, asking the committee to preserve all existing pro-life and religious freedom protections in all future appropriations bills produced by the committee.
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 @ 8:32 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The draft bill text comes after Senators Tillis and Coons revived the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and follows feedback from dozens of stakeholders, industry representatives, and individual inventors after releasing a framework in April.
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 @ 6:10 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Senate Armed Services Committee members will include a host of new privatized housing rules and reforms in their annual defense authorization bill this year, including pulling back some funding from outside contractors and redirecting it to housing improvements.
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 @ 3:27 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Earlier this week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chairman of Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, co-sponsored landmark legislation to combat military sexual assault.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 11:57 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) recently co-sponsored bipartisan legislation that would award grants to local communities for evidence-based school safety technology and infrastructure.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2019 @ 5:08 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), introduced legislation that would protect probation officers and enhance their ability to do their job by giving them authority to arrest a third party who forcibly interferes with an officer’s performance of his or her official duties.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2019 @ 12:05 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) introduced the Thin Blue Line Act to ensure that criminals face the strongest possible punishment in federal cases when they kill or attempt to kill local law enforcement officers.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2019 @ 11:44 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) honored the 371 officers who were added to the National Peace Officers Memorial, including nine from North Carolina who were killed in the line of duty.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 8:44 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Yesterday, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Joe Manchin (D-WV), John Cornyn (R-TX), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced the Bipartisan Disaster Recovery Funding Act.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 6:22 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Earlier this week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored bipartisan legislation that would provide tax relief for children receiving benefits who have lost a parent serving in the military.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 2:30 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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This week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) spoke at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration hearing on the humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 10:01 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis announced the launch of his new official website, tillis.senate.gov, to better serve North Carolinians by offering a host of constituent services and information on his policy priorities and his record of solving problems and delivering results for North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, May 16th, 2019 @ 7:36 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Sexual misconduct is a moral and readiness crisis that we must address head-on.
Published: Monday, May 13th, 2019 @ 2:24 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored the bipartisan PFAS Accountability Act, legislation that would hold federal agencies accountable for addressing contamination for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at military bases across the country.
Published: Monday, May 13th, 2019 @ 10:43 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to select the Research Triangle as one of three finalists to become the new home of the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:00 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the recent committee passage of bipartisan legislation that would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act and give much-needed resources to state and local law enforcement agencies to complete forensic analyses of crime scenes and untested rape kits.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 10:01 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), the co-chairs of the Senate Human Rights Caucus, released the following statement marking World Press Freedom Day.
Published: Saturday, May 11th, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Yesterday, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Kennedy (R-LA), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced bipartisan legislation that would establish the Copyright Claims Board at the Copyright Office to make it easier and less expensive for independent creators
Published: Friday, May 10th, 2019 @ 4:23 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Earlier this week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) continued to push for disaster relief funding for North Carolina as it recovers from Hurricane Florence.
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 @ 1:07 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Tillis and his colleagues David Perdue, Doug Jones, Johnny Isakson and Rick Scott will hold a bipartisan press conference to highlight the critical need for Congress to pass disaster relief for states impacted by recent hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2019 @ 5:37 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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A message from Senator Thom Tillis
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2019 @ 1:50 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently introduced the bipartisan Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA).
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 @ 10:11 am
By: Thom Tillis
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The framework comes just months after Senators Tillis and Coons revived the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property.
Published: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 @ 1:09 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored the bipartisan Defending United States Citizens and Diplomatic Staff from Political Prosecutions Act of 2019 (S. 1075) to address the ongoing wrongful detentions of U.S. citizens and diplomatic staff by the Government of Turkey.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 5:26 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr expressed disappointment today over Congress’ failure to deliver critical disaster aid to assist North Carolina’s Hurricane Florence recovery efforts.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 11:32 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-introduced the bipartisan Gold Star Spouses and Spouses of Injured Servicemembers Leasing Relief Expansion Act.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 4:47 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Senate Republicans believe in patient-centered health care that delivers the choices they want, the affordability and protections they need, and the quality they deserve. That is why Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues today introduced the Protect Act
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2019 @ 6:24 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Tillis and Warren Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Enforce Salary Caps on Fannie and Freddie CEOsSenators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) both members of the Senate Banking Committee with jurisdiction over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, recently introduced the Respect the Caps Act.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2019 @ 7:45 am
By: Thom Tillis
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U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) applauded the Senate’s unanimous passage of their bipartisan Senate resolution that designates April 2019 as “Countering International Parental Child Abduction” month
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 1:16 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored the bipartisan Helping Angels Lead Our Startups (HALOS) Act, legislation that would support small businesses by removing burdensome restrictions from individuals who want to invest in startups and help create jobs.
Published: Friday, April 12th, 2019 @ 9:32 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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