WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that his amendment to the reports section of the Haiti Development, Accountability, and Institutional Transparency Initiative Act, to address kidnappings in Haiti, has been included in the FY 2022 bipartisan funding agreement. This amendment requires "an assessment of U.S. interagency efforts to combat kidnapping and armed violence in Haiti." Senator Portman originally  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that the FY 2022 bipartisan funding bill includes funding for a host of his key conservation priorities, including the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), the National Park Service Centennial Act, Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act, and the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act. Notabl  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined retirees and their families from Northeast Ohio Teamsters, who shared stories about what the pension relief he helped secure for Ohio workers, retirees, and small businesses in the American Rescue Plan means for their lives. The president signed the American Rescue Plan into law one year ago today. "After years of workers and retirees and small business owners in Oh  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after the President of the United States signed into law a bill to rename the North Avondale Post Office at 3493 Burnet Avenue in Cincinnati the "John H. Leahr and Herbert M. Heilbrun Post Office." The Post Office is located in the neighborhood in which the two men went to school together. The bill passed had the bipartisan support of Ohio's C  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressmen Brad Wenstrup, D.P.M., (R-Ohio) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), and Senators Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) introduced the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act to establish a two year extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home COVID-19 waiver brought on by the pandemic and require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct a thorough review of the program. Y  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent a letter yesterday to the Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Shalanda Young requesting that funding be increased for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the fiscal year 2023 budget request so that it has the resources to stand up for American workers. Funding for the agency has remained flat since 2014, leading to consistent underfunding and underst  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging her to support Northeast Ohio's Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network's (MAGNET) Phase Two proposal to the Economic Development Administration's (EDA) "Build Back Better Regional Challenge." The goal of this challenge is to boost the economic recovery of communities who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandem  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, joined Senators John Thune (R-SD), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and a bipartisan group of senators, in sending a letter to President Biden urging him to permit the year-round sale of E15 fuel in order to reduce the United States' reliance on foreign sources of energy. The senators note that American biofuels ar  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Todd Young (R-Ind.) announced that their Israel Relations Normalization Act was included in the FY 2022 bipartisan funding agreement, which passed the Senate by a vote of 68-31. "I thank my colleagues for their bipartisan support for our legislation to expand and strengthen other nations' relations wi  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that with the passage of the final FY 2022 bipartisan spending bill, states can fully tap into the increased levels of highway and transit formula funding as authorized by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Thanks to this action, $76 billion of the bipartisan infrastructure bills funding will now be implemented, which allows states to move forward wi  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on March 11, 2022: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) applauded the inclusion of $13.6 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine in the FY 2022 bipartisan funding bill, which passed the Senate last night. This includes $6.5 billion through the Department of Defense for emergency supplemental assistance, $3.9 billion through the State Department for humanitarian assistance, and $2.8 billion through the U.S. Agency fo  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jim Risch (R-ID), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Todd Young (R-IN) announced that their Israel Relations Normalization Act was included in the FY 2022 bipartisan funding agreement, which passed the Senate by a vote of 68-31. "I am pleased the FY 2022 bipartisan funding agreement includes this important legislation," said Senator Portman. "This bill will encourage n  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on March 11, 2022: Last night, the Senate passed a funding package that provides funding for essential priorities for American families. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was able to secure key wins for Ohio including in education, childcare, healthcare, the environment, science and research, agriculture, public safety, local projects and many more. It also includes a reauthorization of the Violence Against Wo  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: A landmark provision authored by U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to significantly enhance our nation's ability to combat ongoing cybersecurity threats against critical infrastructure has passed the Senate as a part of  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) released the below statement following the news that President Biden has announced support for removal of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with Russia: "This is a critical step consistent with our bipartisan bill and increases the economic consequences for Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Together with our allies, we're sending a clear signal to Russia:   more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) sent a letter to the International Trade Commission urging them to assertively enforce U.S. trade remedy law as it relates to Russia. Given Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the senators want to ensure that the United States is fully enforcing U.S. law against Russia. "Similar to China, Russia is a systematic abuser of international trade rules. Russia ha  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.) announced their Israel Relations Normalization Act was included in the FY2022 bipartisan funding agreement, which passed the Senate by a vote of 68-31. "Agreements like the A  more