WASHINGTON, June 1 -- 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 May 18, 2022, entitled "Pathways to Procurement Innovation": * * * Thank you for holding this important hearing regarding federal procurement improvements. Thank you as well to our witnesses here today, including Ms. Soraya Correa for her many years of service at the Department of Homeland Security. She served   more

WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release and letter: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, sent a letter to Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf laying out the megabank's history of consumer abuses and gross mismanagement. In the letter, Brown urged Wells Fargo to finally right past wrongs and live up to the promises made to the Ame  more

WASHINGTON, June 1 -- 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 May 5, 2022, entitled "Securing and Ensuring Order on the Southwest Border": * * * Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your holding this hearing on the southwest border, which clearly is in a crisis situation now, and I think everybody agrees with that. It's hard not to when you look at the facts. We discusse  more

WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on May 18, 2022, entitled "Addressing Climate Change with Energy-Efficient and Resilient Housing": * * * First, I want to wish a quick and full recovery to our colleague Senator Van Hollen, who has been so active on these issues. We are all thinking of him and his family this morning. This morning the Banking and Housing Com  more