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July 18, 2025
Washington, DC – The House Appropriations Committee met to consider the Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, led by Energy and Water Appropriations Chairman Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03). The bill was approved by the Committee with a vote of 35 to 27. Approval of Rep. Fleischmann’s FY26 Energy and Water Appropriations bill by the Appropriations Committee is a key step before the bill can be brought to the House Floor for a vote.
July 16, 2025

Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), released the following statement commemorating the tenth anniversary of the July 16, 2015, terrorist attacks in Chattanooga that took the lives of five brave U.S. servicemen, remembered forever as the Fallen Five.

July 15, 2025

Washington, DC – The House Appropriations Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee met yesterday evening to consider the Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water bill written by Chairman Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03). The bill was approved by the Subcommittee by a 10-5 vote, sending the bill to the full Appropriations Committee for consideration.

July 3, 2025

Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann(TN-03), Chairman of Energy and Water Appropriations, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives completed final passage of H.R.

May 22, 2025
Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), Energy and Water Appropriations Chairman, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, that delivers President Trump’s America First Agenda.
May 14, 2025

Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) sent a letter today to Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries asking the bipartisan leaders to invite His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born Pope in history, to address a Joint Session of Congress.

April 30, 2025

Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) introduced the bipartisan Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act, which would authorize a study to designate a 287-mile trail linking Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina as a National Scenic Trail.

March 25, 2025
Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), Chairman of Energy and Water Appropriations, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03), Mark Amodei (NV-02), and Seth Moulton (MA-06) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Nuclear Ecosystem Drone Defense (NEDD) Act in the House to increase the protection of Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear assets and facilities related to national security, including the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), from unmanned aerial systems (UAS), commonly known as drones.
March 6, 2025
Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), Chairman of Energy and Water Appropriations, hosted U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to showcase the groundbreaking, cutting-edge work ORNL is doing to fulfill President Trump’s agenda to unleash American energy and innovation.
March 5, 2025
Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) released the following statement following President Donald J. Trump’s historic Joint Address to Congress, the first speech to both Houses of Congress that President Trump has delivered in his second term as President of the United States.