WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Jack Reed issued the following press release:

As working families across the country face sticker shock from their eye-popping gas and utility bills, a leading group of bipartisan U.S. Senators is calling for action to help alleviate energy prices for those in need.

Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a member of the Appropriations Committee, along with U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), the Chair of the Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a member of the Appropriations Committee, led a bipartisan letter (https://www.reed.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/liheap_spring_release_letter_31226.pdf) with 37 of their Senate colleagues urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HH...