WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following remarks on July 28, 2021: * * * During a press conference this evening, Senator Portman delivered remarks touting the historic bipartisan infrastructure agreement that secured Senate approval in a key procedural vote today. The agreement - which Portman has played a key role in crafting - represents the largest investment in core infrastructure in our nation's history. It will modernize and upgrade roads, bridges, ports, and  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced a bill to allow more investors to participate in private equity markets. Due to antiquated securities laws, it is quite difficult and incredibly rare for non-accredited investors to participate in private equity offerings. Consequently, non-accredited investors are routinely forbidden from investing in companies during their growth years. This exclusio  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement after the first meeting of the Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth took place. The committee, made up of eight Democratic Members of Congress selected by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is tasked with addressing growing issues of inequality that plague the country. While established as a bipartisan body, no Repu  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) today joined with his colleagues to re-introduce the Coal Royalty Fairness and Communities Investment Act, a bill that would provide $70 million for former coal communities to help strengthen their economies, diversify industries, and promote new job creation opportunities. Communities across America that were built around the extraction and transportation of natural r  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13), member of the House Appropriations Committee and Chairman of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee and Vice-Chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, released the following statement after securing nearly $18 million for all ten local Community Funding Projects that he submitted in the government funding package that passed the House of Repre  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13), Chairman of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, released the following statement after voting in favor of the bipartisan $2.1 billion supplemental spending bill to increase security at the United States Capitol in response to the January 6th insurrection, reimburse the National Guard for their activation to secure the Capitol, shore up U.S. Capitol Police Pay, and to re  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: The House passed the Emergency Security Supplemental Appropriations, which includes funding for the National Guard and the U.S. Capitol Police. The bill also includes Congressman Brad Wenstrup's (R-Ohio) HOPE for Afghan SIVs Act and provisions from the ALLIES Act, which he co-led as part of the bipartisan Honoring Our Promises Working Group, to help evacuate Afghan interpreters and guides who   more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr. Kristian Andersen, Professor at Scripps Research Translational Institute, to brief the committees about gain-of-function resear  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, ranking Republican member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr. Kristian Andersen, Professor at Scripps Research Transla  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Mark Kelly (D- Ariz.) along with Representatives Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) applauded the progress made on their bipartisan VA Quality Health Care Accountability and Transparency Act as it was passed by the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee with unanimous support. The legislation was introduced by the group in Apr  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown announced that the National Parks Service's (NPS) African American Civil Rights Grant Program has awarded a total of $1,431,960 in grant funding to projects across Ohio to help preserve sites and history related to the African American struggle for equality. The funding compliments Brown's legislation, the African American Civil Rights Network Act, which was signed i  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), along with Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), as well as Representatives Robin L. Kelly (D-IL-02), Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH-16), and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA-03), led a bipartisan group of 62 House Members and 14 Senators in writing to Centers for Medicar  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement on July 29, 2021, at a hearing entitled "Protecting Americans from Debt Traps by Extending the Military's 36% Interest Rate Cap to Everyone": * * * Yesterday, Chairman Brown joined Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), several members of the Committee, and a number of other Senate Democrats in reintroducing the Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 28, 2021: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Jim Risch (R-ID), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and John Barrasso (R-WY) releases a statement in response to the breakdown of the April 19 agreement reached earlier this year to address the political crisis in Georgia. "We are very discouraged by recent developments in Georgia, which undermine the reform e  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Last night, a strong majority of U.S. Senators voted to approve the historic bipartisan infrastructure agreement in a key procedural vote. The agreement - which Portman has played a key role in crafting - represents the largest investment in core infrastructure in our nation's history to modernize and upgrade roads, bridges, ports, and other key infrastructure assets across the country. Here  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona, issued the following joint statement: * * * U.S. Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Angus King (I-Maine), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Jeanne Shahee  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced their Renters Tax Credit Act of 2021 to lower the cost of rent for families across the country. This bill would establish a new renters tax credit to make housing more affordable for low-income households. These hou  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the bipartisan Deepfake Task Force Act to assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in its mission to counter deepfake technology. Deepfakes are  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Yesterday, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the bipartisan Domains Critical to Homeland Security Act to direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct research and develop  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Jim Risch (R-ID), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) applauded Committee passage of the International Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Response Act (S. 2297), comprehensive legislation to improve global health and pandemic preparedness and enhance COVID-19 response efforts. "The COVID-19 pandemic exposed major gaps in our prevention and preparedne  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) praise passage of their Improving Housing Outcomes for Veterans Act, legislation to ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adequately serves veterans experiencing homelessness, which unanimously passed out of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. This legislation follows a May 2020 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, which foun  more