WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2022: Yesterday, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, at a hearing to consider nominees to serve on the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, pressed the nominees on the importance of this review board to balance public disclosure and   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2022: Congressman Troy Balderson today called on Congressional leaders to fully fund the CHIPS For America Act, a crucial piece of legislation aimed at restoring American leadership in semiconductor chip manufacturing. "Restoring American leadership as a producer of advanced computer chip technology is critically important in strengthening U.S. supply chain resiliency and addressing our over-relia  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2022: Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) today led 8 of his Ohio colleagues in sending a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to prioritize domestic semiconductor and microchip manufacturing in America. The letter specifically called on Congressional leaders to fully fund the CHIPS For America Act, legislation that would establish investments and incentives to support U.S. semiconductor man  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2022: Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14) announced that Americans for Prosperity has endorsed his Harnessing Opportunities by Pursuing Expungement (HOPE) Act. Joyce's bipartisan legislation, which he introduced with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), would provide federal grants to help state and local governments establish and improve expungement programs for cannabis offenses. "This bill is  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: This week, Congressman Tim Ryan, Vice-Chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, raised concerns to U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff Joseph M. Martin over the potential impact of continuous delays in federal funding. General Martin responded that delays in congressional funding could impact organic industrial base projects at JSMC pertaining to infrastructure improvements that support production of the Abram  more

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2022: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) is announcing the first round of investments in repairing Ohio bridges under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Law he helped pass last year. Ryan is delivering $96.7 million for Ohio to fix bridges this year in FY2022, part of a total $483.3 million investment over the next five years. "This Infrastructure Law will not only make Ohio safer for all of our cit  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: This week, Congressman Tim Ryan, Vice-Chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, raised concerns to U.S. Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr. over the impact of continuous delays in federal funding, particularly as it relates to the $8.7 million authorized in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for widening the Youngstown Air Reserve Station (YARS) assault strip, as well as the investments for  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, ranking member, and Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-New York, chairman, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following joint statement on Jan. 14, 2022, with Rep. Ami Bera, D-California, chairman, and Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, lead Republican, of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation, in response to reports that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations may invite senior members of the Burmese milita  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2022: U.S. Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Representatives Ami Bera (D-C.A.) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation today released the foll  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2022: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded a $1,500,000 grant to The Ohio State University's (OSU) Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster. These funds will allow OSU to partner with the USDA's Midwest Climate Hub and multiple universities to increase adoption of regionally-scala  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the United States Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has dedicated an historic investment in Ohio's bridges as part of the largest Bridge Formula Program in American history. The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) will receive $96.7 million in funding immediately through the bridge formula program, with a total of $4  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on Jan. 14, 2022: * * * Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement after President Biden announced the nominations of the Honorable Sarah Bloom Raskin for Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision; and Dr. Lisa Cook and Dr. Philip Jefferson for Governors of the  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following statement on Jan. 14, 2022: * * * Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement after President Biden announced the nominations of the Honorable Sarah Bloom Raskin for Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision; and Dr. Lisa Cook and Dr. Philip Jefferson for Governors of the Federal Reserve. "With these nominees, President Biden is showing t  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following statement on Jan. 14, 2022: * * * U.S. Senator Brown (D-OH) released a statement today following the news that, for the second time this week, the Ohio Supreme Court voted 4-3 to throw out the Republican-drawn congressional map, calling it an illegal gerrymander and saying it violates the anti-gerrymandering rules approved by voters in 2018: "The Supreme Court listened to Ohioans and rejected State House Republican politi  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) toured CAS' COVID-19 testing site with leaders from the Ohio National Guard, the Ohio State University, Columbus Public Health and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. Brown spoke with Ohio National Guard members about their sacrifice, leaving their daily lives to help fellow Ohioans by working on health care's front lines. "I know we're all exhausted by this p  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following opening remarks at a Jan. 14, 2022, nomination hearing to consider nominees to serve on the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board: * * * Portman highlighted the importance of this review board in providing information about these unsolved cases and the need to balance public disclosure and privacy interests as these civil rights cold cas  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2022: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) today announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to advance the nominations of Ms. Bridget Meehan Brennan, Mr. Charles Esque Fleming, and Judge David Augustin Ruiz by President Biden to serve as U.S. District Court Judges for the Northern District of Ohio. The Northern District has court locations in Akron, Cleveland,  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate passed U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown's (D-OH) resolution yesterday honoring the Capitol Hill janitorial and maintenance staff workers and United States Capitol Police Officers who risked their lives serving the country on January 6, 2021. They restored dignity to the Capitol, cleaning up the destruction left by the violent insurrectionists, and allowed the Senate to continue its work certifying th  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: United States Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Tina Smith (D-MN) wrote to the eight largest Online Program Management (OPM) companies -- 2U, Academic Partnerships, Pearson, Wiley, Bisk, Kaplan, Grand Canyon, and Zovio -- that administer online degree programs for many colleges and universities, raising concerns about their business practices that incentivize aggressive recruitment ta  more