WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following joint statement: * * * Representatives Mark Green (R-Tennessee), Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), Ken Buck (R-Colorado), Tim Burchett (R-Tennessee), Andy Barr (R-Kentucky), and Young Kim (R-California), Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, released the following statement on the House Rules Committee's decision to prevent floor debate on the Subcommittee's a  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2022: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, stressed the need to hold China accountable for its rampant theft of U.S. taxpayer-funded research and intellectual property at a hearing to consider the nominations of William Valdez to be Under Secre  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2022: Congressman Tim Ryan today testified before the House Natural Resources Committee in support of his bill, The Buckeye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act, to begin the process of designating The Buckeye Trail as a national scenic trail. The Buckeye Trail is a system of trails creating a loop extending approximately 1,454 miles from Lake Erie to the Ohio River, providing access to some of Ohio  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2022: Following a letter sent to Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced that CMS has heeded his call and will begin covering over-the-counter COVID-19 tests for those in either Original Medicare or Medicare Advantage beginning in early spring.  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led colleagues in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough to voice concerns about a Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General report highlighting failures within DoD to screen for and prevent suicide amongst transitioning servicemembers from DoD to VA. The letter comes as amid continued effort  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined his colleagues on the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee yesterday in unanimously passing bipartisan legislation to offer Post-9/11 combat veterans, including those suffering from conditions caused by toxic exposures, access to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care. The Health Care for Burn Pit Veterans Act received unanimous support by Senate Veterans' Affairs  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2022: U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, delivered the following opening statement at today's nomination hearing for the Honorable Sarah Bloom Raskin, nominee to be Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision; and Dr. Lisa Cook and Dr. Philip Jefferson, nominee  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following newsletter: The situation in Ukraine is deeply troubling to me on a personal level, as I know it is to thousands of Ukrainians in my state. Ukraine holds a special place in my heart - it has ever since I visited the country as a young college student and learned about its wonderful people and rich culture. Since then, I've met thousands of members of Ohio's Ukrainian community - warm, dedicated, fiercely proud of their heri  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2022: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing to consider the nominations of William Valdez to be Under Secretary for Management at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Dimitri Kusnezov to be Under Secre  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) joined the entire Senate Republican Conference in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to suspend the pending rulemaking to redefine the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA), specifically "waters of the United States" (WOTUS), until the U.S. Supreme Court completes its consideration of Sackett v. EPA, a case  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) applauded the unanimous passage of his bipartisan resolution reaffirming U.S. support for the Belarusian pro-democracy movement. The resolution calls for free and fair elections, reaffirms bipartisan support in the Senate for the pro-democracy movement, free media and the Belarusian people and condemns Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's acts of transnational repression. Th  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2022: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a joint statement following the news that workers in the Silao, Mexico General Motors plant have voted to be represented by the independent labor union Sindicato Independiente Nacional de Trabajadores Trabajadoras de la Industria Automotriz (SINTTIA). When corporations are held accountable for treating workers fairly, regardless of  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2022: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Tom Carper (D-DE) applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's passage of their bipartisan Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2022: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, introduced legislation to prohibit the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, issued the following joint statement with Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rep. Alma Adams, D-North Carolina, founder and co-chair of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, on the continued bomb threats against historically black colleges and universities: * * * "The continued bomb threats against HBCUs are hate crimes that must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.   more