WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter on May 26, 2022: This week, Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) joined 26 House Democrats in a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urging them to prioritize legislation that lowers health care costs. In the letter to House and Senate leaders, Rep. Kaptur and her colleagues called for a vote on legislation to permanently expand the enhanced advance premium  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Representatives Tim Ryan (D-OH-13), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-15), Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23), and Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03), members of the Bipartisan Border Security Technology Caucus, held the Caucus' first briefing since launching in March. The Caucus was joined by Orbital Insight, who presented on how geospatial data can help law enforcement agencies better monitor and collect data on migration across our bord  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 26, 2022: Rep. Brad Wenstrup, D.P.M. (R-Ohio) introduced the bipartisan Kidney Health Connect Act, which he led with Reps. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.), John Joyce, M.D. (R-Pa.), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John Barrasso, M.D. (R-Wyo.) This legislation allows dialysis clinics to serve as originating sites for telehealth services and ensures patients are not responsible for any   more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bob Casey (D-PA), along with U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9), led a bicameral letter to President Biden to express their support for the Department of Commerce's (DOC) investigation into whether Chinese solar cells and modules are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) through Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia. The lawmakers' support  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced the Reclaiming the Solar Supply Chain Act to expand the solar manufacturing supply chain in the U.S., create jobs, and support our global competitiveness. "Nevada has a booming solar industry, and bringing the full solar manufacturing supply chain back to the U.S.  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter on May 26, 2022: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and his fellow Senate Finance Committee Republicans wrote to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Chuck Rettig raising concerns and questions about the IRS's destruction of an estimated 30 million paper-filed documents in March 2021 reportedly due to a backlog in processing paper documents. A Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) led a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to President Biden urging him not to lift the Section 301 tariffs, which currently target China and their illegal and unfair trade practices. The letter urges the Biden administration not to lift the tariffs, a policy position long advocated for by the Chinese Communist Party. The Biden ad  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced the bipartisan Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit Stipend Act to authorize the existing Transnational Criminal Investigative Units (TCIUs) in law. TCIUs are key components o  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 26, 2022: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced a resolution designating May 28 as World Hunger Day. The resolution comes on the 90th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, and as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to cause widespread destruction and strangles Ukraine's ability to export much-needed wheat. "Just as we look back and reflec  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on May 26, 2022: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a resolution designating May 28 as World Hunger Day. The resolution comes on the 90th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, and as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to cause widespread destruction and strangles Ukraine's abilit  more