WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2021: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $472,186 in grants to the University of Toledo's Health Science Campus for new research projects focused on mental health and cancer. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant funding will be split between two projects led by University of Toledo (UT) researchers: * $25  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2021: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced the Department of Justice has awarded a $598,719 grant to Advocating Opportunity in Toledo to strengthen the organization's support services for survivors of human trafficking. Advocating Opportunity provides holistic, trauma-responsive legal and support services to survivors of sex and labor trafficking throughout the Lucas County area. Since the o  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Following the devastating reports of the death of six employees after an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois collapsed during a tornado on December 10, 2021, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led two letters today calling for an investigation into Amazon's workplace labor practices and demanding answers from Amazon on the circumstances that led to the death of these workers. Brown joined U.S. Senator E  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Todd Young (R-IN) led four senators in support of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division's role in restricting the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts to promote worker mobility at a time of low unemployment rates and economic recovery. Too often, employers use non-compete agreements to pr  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2021: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that Biden administration is finally taking some actions to address the southern border as unlawful migration and fentanyl seizures continue to hit record levels. Portman has continually pr  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2021: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Training for the Acquisition Workforce Act which will help bolster the federal workforce's understanding of artif  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) led a group of nine senators in calling on Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Moderna to increase COVID-19 vaccines to low- and middle-income countries to help tackle the global disparities in accessing the vaccine. This follows a bipartisan letter that Brown and Schatz led in October calling on President Biden to provide more U.S. leadership and step up e  more