WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2022: Yesterday, Rep. Chabot (R-OH) joined 116 Republicans on a letter led by Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) to President Biden urging the Administration to take immediate action to stem the fentanyl scourge coming from China and across the southern border, and support making fentanyl related substances Schedule 1 classification permanent. Drug overdoses have claimed more Americans lives each year than eve  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: This week, Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14) joined Congressman Bryan Steil (WI-01) in calling on President Biden to maintain the Schedule I status for fentanyl-related substances under the Controlled Substances Act. Fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances are fueling America's overdose epidemic, killing 64,178 Americans between May 2020 and April 2021 and making up 64% of total U.S. overdose deaths. "Synthetic op  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 10, 2022: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced Ohio will receive $20,739,853 in federal funding this year for electric vehicle infrastructure from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Last year, Rep. Kaptur joined nearly every House Democrat to pass the Jobs and Infrastructure bill, while 94 percent of Republicans opposed it. Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation released the fundi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) along with Representatives Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3), Tim Ryan (D-OH-13), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9), and Shontel Brown (D-OH-11), sent a letter to Congressional leaders in the Senate and House Appropriation Committees, urging them to include Ohio's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) priorities in the final, conference appropriations bill. "Science, technology, rese  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following newsletter on Feb. 11, 2022: Last year Senator Portman and I introduced our Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 legislation, to update and strengthen our trade remedy laws, to support Ohio businesses and their workers that face unfair foreign competition from countries like China. And today we are one step closer to getting that bill to the president's desk. This month, the House passed its version of an American economic compe  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) applauded the announcement by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy that they have established the $5 billion new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. This program was created through Senator Portman's bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Ohio will receive $140 million to build out electric vehicle charging sta  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) applauded the Department of Interior (DOI) announcement that $46.4 million has been allocated to Ohio for fiscal year (FY) 2022 to reclaim abandoned mine lands (AML). The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act - which Portman was the lead negotiator on - provides $11.3 billion in AML funding to states over the next 15 years. "Thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure law  more

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following statement: * * * U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) praised Senate passage of the bipartisan legislation he co-sponsored that will prevent perpetrators from being able to push survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault into secretive forced arbitration agreements. The bill would also invalidate existing forced arbitration clauses that prevent sexual assault and sexual harassment survivors from seeking justice and   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2022: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) led 10 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Senate leadership, urging them to include their bipartisan, bicameral Technical Reset to Advance the Instruction of Nurses (TRAIN) Act in any upcoming legislative package that's headed to the President's desk. The TRAIN Act would help support the future of our health care  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) led seven colleagues in writing a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to express their concerns, first raised in a Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) report, that private student loan companies and servicers are intentionally misrepresenting to borrowers the possibility of discharging "non-qualified" private student loans in  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2022: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) led 10 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Senate leadership, urging them to include their bipartisan, bicameral Technical Reset to Advance the Instruction of Nurses (TRAIN) Act in any upcoming legislative package that's headed to the President's desk. The TRAIN Act would help support the fut  more