- WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement upon President Bush’s call for Congress to give him the authority to raise automobile fuel efficiency standards: "I support the Presidents initiative to improve CAFE standards for automobiles as part of the solution to our growing dependence on foreign oil...

- WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Co-Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) today introduced S.2653, the Call Home Act of 2006. The legislation would direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in coordination with the Department of Defense and the Department of State, to seek to reduce phone rates for Armed Forces personnel deployed overseas...

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- Washington, D.C. – A House-Senate Conference Committee has approved the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 889, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2006 (Conference Report 109-413). The Conference Report authorizes $8.7 billion for Fiscal Year 2006. The authorization agreed to will continue to allow the Coast Guard to perform non-homeland security missions such as search and rescue, fishe...