WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, issued the following statement: Congressman Steve Chabot (R-OH) released the following statement on President Biden's debacle in Afghanistan. "President Biden's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan is a national embarrassment. This is especially true of the inexplicable failure to evacuate many of our personnel, thousands of American citizens, and tens of thousands of our vulnerable Afghan partners before the Taliban seized control of the countr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2021: In a new op-ed for Barron's, Senator Portman, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discusses the important permitting reforms included in the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act - the landmark bipartisan billion infrastructure legislation which he led and which recently pass  more