WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter on July 21, 2022: Yesterday, during a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing titled "Examining the Status of VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization Program," U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) spoke with Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials about patient safety, interoperability, and readiness concerns regarding VA's Electronic Health Record (EHR) roll out. On April 30th, the Chalmer  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Legislation authored by U.S. Congresswoman and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty (OH-03) to provide Americans a public draft of the upcoming twenty dollar note featuring abolitionist Harriet Tubman passed the House as part of a six-bill appropriations minibus. The provision was adopted as an amendment to the bill, H.R. 8294. First announced in 2016, work on the "Tubman Twenty" was paused under the T  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Rep. Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) released the following statement on the passage of H.R. 8373, the Right to Contraception Act, to protect against state laws that would restrict access to contraceptives for Americans and healthcare providers. "Stripping women of access to contraception is unjust and further exploits the attacks far-right extremists have begun on women's fundamental reproductive healthcare rights,  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) voted to enshrine the right to birth control under federal law. The Right to Contraception Act ensures that neither states nor a future presidential administration can limit women's access to contraceptives or the ability of health care providers to provide contraceptives and information related to them. "Extremist politicians have made it clear that they won't stop at abortion, and I  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: During a Senate Finance Committee hearing titled "The Role of Tax Incentives in Affordable Housing," U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, highlighted the need to pass legislation that would ensure housing is affordable and available to all. "As Chairman of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, ensuring housing affordability is not only   more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) applauded the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for advancing his bipartisan African American Burial Grounds Preservation Act, which is co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT). This legislation will now go before the Senate for a vote. "As a nation, we have failed to preserve historic Black burial grounds around the country. That's why we've worked  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on July 21, 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 "Priced Out: The State of Housing in America." Sen. Brown's remarks, as prepared for delivery, follow: You can't open up a paper or turn on the n  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Jim Risch (R-ID), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced a resolution recognizing Russia's actions in Ukraine, which include forced deportations to Russia and the purposeful killing of Ukrainian civilians in mass atrocities, as constituting a genocide against the people of Ukraine. The senato  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a July 12, 2022, confirmation hearing. The nominees are Errol R. Arthur, Kendra D. Briggs and Carl Ezekiel Ross to be associate judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. * * * I want to thank the three nominees for being here today as the committee considers their nominations to be Associate Judges on the   more