WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-California, chairman of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, issued the following news release: Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Ranking Member Mike Turner (R-Ohio), and a bipartisan group of members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, have delivered a letter to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, urging the Intelligence Community to prioritize its unique resources and capabilities to defend human righ  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: An amendment offered by U.S. Congresswoman and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty (OH-03) to support refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine was added to a broader Ukrainian relief bill with wide bipartisan support. Now included in the Ukraine Comprehensive Debt Payment Relief Act (H.R. 7081), Beatty's amendment instructs the Secretary of the Treasury "to use the voice and vote of the United States  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, issued the following statement: * * * U.S. Congresswoman and Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Joyce Beatty joined Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Representative Bobby Rush, and Representative Bennie Thompson, and others for the bill enrollment ceremony for the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act (H.R. 55), which designates lynching as a federal hate crime. In response to this historic passage, Congresswoman Beatty issued the following  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California, issued the following news release: Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) joined House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Ranking Member Mike Turner (R-Ohio), and a bipartisan group of committee members in delivering a letter to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines urging the Intelligence Community (IC) to prioritize its unique resources and capabilities to defend human rights in Ukraine.   more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, ranking Republican member of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, issued the following news release: Ranking Member Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and a bipartisan group of members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, delivered a letter to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, urging the Intelligence Community to prioritize its unique resources and capabilities to defend huma  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Representatives Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Andy Levin (D-MI), Ranking Member and Vice Chair of House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation, released the following statement in response to the U.S. State Department's determination today that military forces in Burma committed atrocities that amount to genocide against the Rohingya people. "We applaud the State Depart  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, issued the following joint statement: * * * Representatives Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Freedom of the Press Caucus, issued the following statement on the deaths of at least four journalists in Ukraine. "As Russia's assault on Ukraine continues, an increasingly-frustrated Vladimir Putin is attempting to silence those who might expose the cruelty and extraordinary senselessness of his w  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on March 22, 2022: During a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing titled "Rural Quality of Life: Opportunities and Challenges for the Rural Care Economy," U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced Dr. ShoshanahInwood, Associate Professor of Community, Food and Economic Development at The Ohio State University. During her testimony, Dr. Inwood shared findings from her research examining how the availability,   more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following opening statement on March 22, 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 "Building a Resilient Economy: Shoring Up Supply." Sen. Brown's remarks, as prepared for delivery, follow: For generations, manufacturing was the lifeblood of communities across Ohio and throughout th  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on March 22, 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 "Building a Resilient Economy: Shoring Up Supply." Sen. Brown's remarks, as prepared for delivery, follow: For generations, manufacturing was t  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), along with all other Finance Committee Republicans, sent a letter requesting U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen provide an update on the status of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds reports, which by law are to be issued annually by April 1. The reports have rarely been distributed on time in recent years, with the 2021 report not delivered until Augus  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on March 8, 2022, entitled "Examining Mandatory Arbitration in Financial Service Products": * * * Today's hearing is in hybrid format. Last Thursday, President Biden signed the "Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act" - a bipartisan bill to stop corporations from denying their workers the cho  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on March 15, 2022, entitled "Correcting the Public Record: Reforming Federal and Presidential Records Management": * * * There's a lot said these days about the pillars of democracy. I think one of those pillars is government transparency. That's an area I care about and work on a lot, such as when I sponsored t  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following testimony opening statement at a hearing on March 17, 2022, entitled "Pandemic Response and Accountability: Reducing Fraud and Expanding Access to COVID-19 Relief Through Effective Oversight": * * * I'm glad we're having this hearing. Over the last two years, the United States government has spent more than 5 trillion dollars/1 responding to   more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on March 16, 2022, entitled "Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Examining the Threat to Houses of Worship and Public Spaces": * * * Thank you, Chairman Peters, for holding this hearing to discuss the elevated threat of violence and terrorism against our houses of worship. Just over two months ago, a terrorist made  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing on March 15, 2022, entitled "Advancing Public Transportation under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law": * * * Ohioans know how we let our infrastructure languish for far too long. They talked to Congress for years, trying to get Washington to listen. Presidents of both parties promised infrastructure investment. It took this presid  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Joanna M. Pinkerton, president and CEO of the Central Ohio Transit Authority, involving a hybrid hearing on March 15, 2022, entitled "Advancing Public Transportation under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law": * * * Thank you, Chairman Brown, for the opportunity to testify this afternoon on the enormous opportunities I see for central Ohio under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Th  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on March 22, 2022: Bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) to strengthen the nation's criminal justice system passed the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation (CST) Committee today by voice vote and will now be considered by the full Senate. The Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act, as amended, would help families keep in to  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on March 22, 2022: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) introduced a bipartisan resolution designating April 2022 as "National Native Plant Month" and recognizing the importance of native plants to environmental conservation and restoration, as well as in supporting a diversity of wildlife. "I am proud to introduce this bipartisan resolution designating April 2022 as National Native Plant  more