WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, introduced a bill to prevent the U.S. Treasury Department from unnecessarily collecting small business owners’...
Kennedy, Grassley, Johnson request records on Biden admin subpoenas for Congressional Republicans’ telephone records
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined a letter led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Permanent...
Kennedy, Merkley, Marshall, Markey champion bill to end involuntary facial recognition screenings, protect Americans’ privacy at airports
Watch Kennedy’s comments in the Senate Budget Committee here.WASHINGTON – Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today introduced the...
Kennedy, Cotton, Scott urge SEC to review Consolidated Audit Trail
MADISONVILLE, La. – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today joined Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and colleagues in sending a letter to the...
Kennedy champions bill to repeal woke CFPB rule forcing banks to collect data on sex, ethnicity from small businesses
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today introduced a bill to repeal the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would implement Section 1071 of the...
Kennedy, Warnock introduce bipartisan bill to research fiber optic cable connection to Africa
MADISONVILLE, La. – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in introducing the DiasporaLink Act. The legislation would direct the National Telecommunications and...
Kennedy presses DHS to conduct oversight of TSA’s facial recognition technology
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and a bipartisan group of colleagues in urging Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General Joseph Cuffari...
Kennedy introduces bill to protect taxpayer privacy, strengthen penalties for leaking personal data
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, has introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act to safeguard Americans’ sensitive data and increase penalties...
Kennedy, Warner introduce bill to protect American investments from AI manipulation
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) in introducing the Financial Artificial Intelligence Risk Reduction Act. The bill would require the Financial Stability...
Kennedy in the Washington Examiner: The SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail is a disaster waiting to happen
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) penned this op-ed in the Washington Examiner warning that the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) places the private information of 158 million American...