WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following statement: * * * Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) - Co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Ukraine Caucus - released the following statement on President Joe Biden's authorization of an additional $800 million in security assistance for Ukraine. "As the world has seen throughout this bloody war, the Ukrainian people have the heart and courage to defeat Putin and his war machine. But they need free nations to step up  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Jon Tester (D-MT), and James Lankford (R-OK), sent a letter urging the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to move forward quickly with review of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed rule to lower out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors by bringing so-called pharmacy direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fe  more

LAKEWOOD, Ohio, April 19 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined Reta Jo Lewis, the president of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of the United States, at NeoGraf Solutions in Lakewood to tour the facility and meet with minority-owned business owners and leaders. Brown and Lewis also participated in a roundtable discussion about how the bank can better support minority-owned companies in Ohio export goods to other countries. "For   more

FREMONT, Ohio, April 19 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on April 18, 2022: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined Reta Jo Lewis, the president of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank at the Crown Battery factory in Fremont to tour the facility and discuss how the bank can help more Ohio companies export goods to other countries. "For decades Ohio has lived with the consequences of bad trade and tax policy that encouraged corporations to send production overseas, in   more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.), sent a letter urging the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to move forward quickly with review of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed rule to lower out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors by bringing so-called pharmacy direct and ind  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on April 5, 2022, entitled "Keeping Markets Fair: Considering Insider Trading Legislation": * * * The tragedy and uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic taught us a lot about the economy and the stock market. At first, for a brief period at the beginning of the pandemic, the stock market tracked what was happening in the   more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement at an April 6, 2022, confirmation hearing. The nominees are Ventris C. Gibson to be director of the U.S. Mint, and Paul M. Rosen to be assistant secretary of the Treasury for investment security. * * * The Committee meets today to consider the nominations of: Ms. Ventris C. Gibson to be Director of the Mint; and Mr. Paul M. Rosen to be Assis  more