WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2022: U.S. Senator and Senate Auto Caucus co-chair Sherrod Brown (D-OH) urged the House to quickly pass America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength (COMPETES) Act of 2022, the House version of the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA). Following swift passage of the House's America COMPETES Act, both chambers will negotiate a final bill an  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, issued the following statement on Jan. 26, 2022: * * * U.S. Congresswoman and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty (OH-03) released the following statement on the reported retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. "I will never forget how meaningful it was to hear then-candidate Biden announce to the world that he intended to appoint a Black woman to our nation's highest court, should there be a vacancy during his presidency  more

DENVER, Colorado, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2022: U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) urged President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to secure an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) as a centerpiece of the Build Back Better package. "The expanded CTC is a signature domestic policy achievement of th  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2022: U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a virtual roundtable today with U.S. Treasury Department officials and nearly 200 Ohio mayors, county commissioners and other local leaders to discuss how to spend the resources they received from the American Rescue Plan, and ensure local leaders have the information they need. The American Rescue Plan, passed in 2021, included $350 billion in state and   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following statement on Jan. 26, 2022: * * * U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) released the following statement on the retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephan Breyer. "Stephen Breyer dedicated his life to serving the American people, and for nearly three decades he was a trusted, thoughtful voice for justice and the equal protection of all Americans on the Supreme Court. "He understood that Supreme Court justices  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2022: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined a bipartisan group of his colleagues in urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to release funds from the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust, an emergency international food assistance program, to combat global hunger in times of "exceptional need." Currently 45 million people across 43 countri  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2022: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris urging them to secure an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) as a centerpiece of the Build Back Better package. "The consequences of failing to extend the CTC expansion are dire,   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2022: U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) urged President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to secure an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) as a centerpiece of the Build Back Better package. "The expanded CTC is a signature domestic policy achievement of this adminis  more