Press Releases

For Immediate Release Washington D.C. - Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), signed a letter along with 93 other members of Congress, sent to President Barack Obama, requesting the text of the “side deals” made between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Iranian Government as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the "Iran Deal."

Washington D.C. – U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) opposes the rule announced by the Obama Administration that would force power plants to make major cuts to carbon dioxide emissions. Experts say it will be one of the most costly rules of all time.

Washington D.C. – Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL) announced today that the City of Warrior Fire Department received an Assistance to Firefighters - Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant for $968,400 awarded by the Department of Homeland Security. The department’s application competed against other, similar departments through a peer review process for a portion of federal funding.

For Immediate Release Washington, DC – Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL), is an original co-sponsor of H.R. 3199, To prohibit statutory sanctions relief by the United States with respect to Iran unless the Senate provides its advice and consent to ratification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. This bill, introduced by Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), would not allow the Administration to lift sanctions on Iran unless the Senate gives its consent under Article II Section 2 of the Constitution, which requires a two-thirds vote in the upper chamber.

For Immediate Release Washington, D.C. –Disturbed by recent videos concerning Planned Parenthood, Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) led 55 House colleagues in writing a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, requesting that an independent counsel be appointed to fully investigate the possibility that the Planned Parenthood Foundation of America broke the law by selling parts of aborted babies, and by altering their abortion techniques to ensure the right body parts remained intact.

For Immediate Release Washington, DC – Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL), voted for H.R. 1994, the VA Accountability Act of 2015, which passed the House today. The bill is aimed at remedying some of the abuses that have been revealed as part of the Veteran’s Affairs (VA) scandal.

For Immediate Release Washington D.C. - Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) joins his fellow members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in calling for President Obama to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Mr. Koskinen repeatedly gave misleading and false testimony to Congress, and failed to preserve evidence related to the troubling scandal where various conservative non-profit organizations were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for exercising their right to freedom of speech.