WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: During a Senate Finance Committee hearing titled "SpotlightingIRS Customer Service Challenges," U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) pressedErin M. Collins, National Taxpayer Advocate at the Internal Revenue Service(IRS) on ways IRS can better assist Ohio families with the Child Tax Credit(CTC). Brown has been at the forefront of the fight to expand the CTC, aprogram that 92 percent of Ohio's kid  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: During a Senate Finance Committee hearing earlier today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) discussed his concerns with the growing backlog at the IRS - noting that it is having a major impact on families and businesses across Ohio and the country. Portman also outlined the harmful consequences of the so-called book tax that Democrats' proposed as part of their Build Back Better framework. He said  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: Today at a hearing to examine the gaps in America's biosecurity preparedness, expert witnesses agreed with U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, that there is currently too much fragmentation and not enough accountability within the fede  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) touted the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's $1 billion investment in the Great Lakes will significantly accelerate progress in the restoration of some of the region's most environmentally degraded sites. "Lake Erie and our Great Lakes are critical to Northeast Ohio's economy and to the countle  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: This week, Ohio Rep. Warren Davidson (OH-R) introduced the Keep Your Coins Act, legislation designed to preserve Americans' right to privacy in transacting with crypto assets. Specifically, this legislation would prohibit any federal agency from promulgating a rule that would impair a person's ability to act as self-custodian. Therefore, a person would then be able to conduct peer-to-peer transactions with   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are announcing that as a direct result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the EPA will continue its progress in the clean-up and restoration of Lake Erie's most environmentally degraded sites, including the Cuyahoga and Maumee Rivers, and secure clean water and a better environment for Ohioans who live, work, and use  more

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 18 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: Congressman Tim Ryan today is announcing $29.7 million for Ohio from the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration (WSFR) grants, which were reauthorized as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Ryan helped pass. The Ohio grant includes $7,862,728 for Sport Fish Restoration, $14,923,582 for Wildlife Restoration, $6,752,986 for Basic Hunter Education, and $240,000 for Enhanced Hunter Education.   more

LORDSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 18 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following statement on Feb. 16, 2022: * * * Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) today released the following statement in response to Fisker Incorporated's announcement of their anticipated timeline for production of its electric vehicle, the PEAR, which will be manufactured in Lordstown. "I've been fighting for the Mahoning Valley to be the nation's hub of electric vehicle production for years. "With Fisker's announcement that the PEAR   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) applauded the announcement from the Biden administration that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will invest $1 billion in funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) to clean up and restore the Great Lakes. This funding was allocated as part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which Brown helped to write and p  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that agriculture producers have until March 15, 2022 to enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2022 crop year. Meanwhile, producers who enrolled farms for the 2020 crop year have started receiving more than $1.8 billion in payments for covered commodities which were triggered under such programs. "Ohio farmers ne  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement: * * * Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement on Republican attempts to block key federal Reserve Nominees: "Ranking Member Toomey is holding up our fight against inflation because Ms. Bloom Raskin doesn't remember a phone call from five years ago.   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following statement on Feb. 17, 2022: * * * Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement on Republican attempts to block key federal Reserve Nominees. "Ranking Member Toomey is holding up our fight against inflation because Ms. Bloom Raskin doesn't remember a phone call from five years ago. Ranking Member Toomey isn't interested in answers, o  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 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 hearing entitled "The State of the American Economy: A Year of Unprecedented Economic Growth and Future Plans." Sen. Brown's remarks, as prepared for delivery, fol  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following opening statement on Feb. 17, 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 hearing entitled "The State of the American Economy: A Year of Unprecedented Economic Growth and Future Plans." Sen. Brown's remarks, as prepared for delivery, follow: Every day, Americans get up, go to work and do thei  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) - who spearheaded passage of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act - applauded the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement that the agency will use funding provided through the bipartisan infrastructure law for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) to make significant progress in cleaning up and restoring Areas of Concern (AOCs), which is a locat  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing entitled "Addressing the Gaps in America's Biosecurity Preparedness" and highlighted how the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) offi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and his fellow Senate Finance Committee Republicans wrote U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raising questions and concerns with recent developments in global tax negotiations. The request for information follows a prior request, sent in December 2021, which has gone unanswered. Since that time, there have been a number of alarming developments  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, Rob Portman (R-Ohio), chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Sena  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Sally Accorti Martin, Cleveland director of building and housing, involving a hybrid hearing on Feb. 10, 2022, entitled "How Institutional Landlords are Changing the Housing Market": * * * My name is Sally Accorti Martin. For almost 14 years, I was the Housing Director for the City of South Euclid, Ohio, an inner-ring suburb on the east side of Cleveland. My role was to oversee res  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: This evening, the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly in support of a bipartisan resolution introduced by U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, in support of Ukraine in the face of increased Russian aggression. The senators' resoluti  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: In a bipartisan effort to protect workers' Social Security benefits, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced the Supporting Essential Workers in Retirement Act. Their bill would exempt overtime and hazard pay earned during the public health emergency in 2020 and 2021 from the RET. Any benefits that have been withheld by the Social Security Administration or lump sums that have be  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, and U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, led a bipartisan group of senators, including Senate Foreign Relation  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affair Committee, and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the Post-Disaster Mental Health Response Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would expand eligibility for FEMA's Crisis Counseling Assistance and Tra  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, led a bipartisan group of senators, including Senate Foreign Relations Chairman and Ranking Member, Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Jim Risch (R-ID), as well as Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator John Cornyn   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: This week, 172 U.S. manufacturers and producers, along with members of the Committee to Support US Trade Laws (CSUSTL), have come out in support of Senator Portman's bipartisan Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act - also known as Leveling the Playing Field Act 2.0. This legislation would strengthen U.S. trade remedy laws and ensure they remain effective tools to fight back against u  more