IN THE BATTLEGROUNDS: Senate Democrats Focus On Working Families, Lowering Costs During State Work Period

Sen. Rev. Warnock: “It’s important to emphasize while they are seeing record prices, oil and gas companies are seeing record profits. So it’s really important that we hold these oil and gas companies accountable, and that’s something I’m determined to do.” 

During the recent state work period voters in key Senate battlegrounds are reading and watching a wave of coverage highlighting how Senate Democrats are fighting to address working families’ most pressing priorities  – like lowering costs, strengthening America’s supply chains, and rebuilding their state’s infrastructure. 

See for yourself: 

AZ – KVOA: Sen. Kelly visits Sahuarita High School to check out construction technology program

• “He toured the facilities where students are learning the skills to work the kinds of jobs the bipartisan infrastructure law is hoping to create.”
  

AZ – Arizona Republic: Interior secretary outlines funding for Arizona tribal water settlements, other projects

• “Securing Arizona’s water future means ensuring the federal government follows through on its commitment to our tribal communities,” Kelly said. Funding for the tribal water settlements “will benefit our entire state’s water supply while also completing water infrastructure projects needed for tribal communities to access clean, reliable drinking water now and for generations to come.”

GA – 11Alive: Warnock-sponsored legislation to cap insulin prices gets major endorsement 

• Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock received an endorsement Wednesday from arguably the country’s most prominent diabetes organization for a piece of legislation that would aim to put a hard cap on insulin costs.
  
  
• The American Diabetes Association said it was endorsing the Affordable Insulin Now Act, introduced last week by Sen. Warnock.
  
  
• The aim of the bill would be to require Medicare as well as private insurance plans to cap insulin costs at $35 a month.
  

• According to Warnock, the legislation would lower the insulin costs for more than 1 million patients in Georgia.

GA – Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Warnock showcase populist streak in battle for second term 

• At a stop in Columbus, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock touted new legislation to boost mental health funding. A few hours later, the Democrat stood at a Sandy Springs gas station promising to blunt rising fuel prices with a temporary gas tax holiday.
  
  
• “Quite frankly, this is part of me trying to do my job. My job is to represent the people who sent me. They are feeling the pinch,” Warnock said Tuesday during his Sandy Springs stop. “And I know that a lot of folks are focused on politics. I’m focused on the people.”
  
  
• “It’s important to emphasize while they are seeing record prices, oil and gas companies are seeing record profits,” he said. “So it’s really important that we hold these oil and gas companies accountable, and that’s something I’m determined to do.”
  

GA – WTVM: Senator Warnock visits Columbus to push new mental health package

• “Senator Raphael Warnock visited Columbus to unveil his New Mental Health Resource Package. The initiative will put more funding toward hiring and maintaining mental health professionals in schools.”
  
  
• “After leaving Columbus, Senator Warnock traveled to gas stations in the metro Atlanta area to highlight efforts to lower gas prices across the state.” 

NV – Las Vegas Sun: Nevada senator seeks to boost domestic manufacturing, ease supply chain disruptions

• Creating more manufacturing jobs in the United States could help protect against future supply chain disruptions, U.S. Sen. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., said Tuesday at a breakfast for business leaders in Las Vegas.
  
  
• Cortez Masto touted legislation passed last year in the Senate to bolster domestic manufacturing and research and development.
  
  
• Called the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a version of the bill is expected to go to conference committee soon following its recent passage in the House. The legislation would provide billions of dollars to support domestic semiconductor manufacturing and create a program focused on domestic supply chain initiatives.
  
  
• “We have the businesses, the ability and the workforce to bring that supply chain here to the United States,” she said. “We can bring manufacturing back to the United States, address where we see high prices and work to keep costs down and build what we need here. We have the technology. We need to be more competitive globally.”

NV – KSNV: More affordable housing coming to Las Vegas

• The Senator says affordable housing is the number one issue she’s been hearing about throughout the state since taking office nearly five years ago.
  
  
• “My goal is to make sure there are federal opportunities to provide that financing,” says Cortez Masto. “And that’s what we’ve been able to do through American Rescue Plan, through some of the legislation that I’ve been able to pass and look to continue to pass as well.”

NH – Monadnock Ledger-Transcript: Senator Maggie Hassan meets with manufacturers to discuss supply chain issues and upcoming legislation

• A bill being worked on in the U.S. Senate, proposed by Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, could provide up to $40 billion in grants and loans to manufacturers that produce critical goods.
  
  
• In a round table at Cirtronics Corporation in Milford earlier this month, Hassan met with several manufacturers, including representatives of MilliporeSigma in Jaffrey, to talk about their ongoing challenges – including supply chain delays.
  
  
• During the roundtable, Hassan introduced and spoke about for the first time a Senate bill she was working on to support manufacturers of technologies such as semiconductors, military technology, solar panels, medical devices and biotechnology.
  
  
• The bill would invest more than $40 billion in grants and loans to manufacturing companies to support the domestic production of those goods, as well as creating an office at the Commerce Department to focus on supply chains to disburse the funds. Additionally, the bill would create a national strategy for supply chains and how to better prepare for future supply chain disruptions.

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