Day: January 30, 2024

Fetterman, Warren Lead Senators in New Letter Urging Biden Administration to Swiftly Deschedule Marijuana

WASHINGTON, DC – Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led nine of their Democratic colleagues in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram, urging them to remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Descheduling would be a major step in undoing failed War on Drugs policies and bringing sanity to national cannabis policy. The

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Casey, Fetterman Continue Push to Hold Norfolk Southern Accountable to Pennsylvanians After Company Starts Process of Joining Close Call Reporting System

WASHINGTON, DC – Pennsylvania U.S. Senators Bob Casey and John Fetterman today continued their push to hold Norfolk Southern accountable after the company announced that it would take steps towards joining the Federal Railroad Administration’s Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS), a program that allows employees to anonymously report near-misses or close calls on railroads when they see them and protects employees from retribution when they report these events. In August,

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