WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, ranking Republican member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 15, 2022: * * * House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Mike Turner (R-Ohio) today are pressing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christophe  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2022: The U.S. House passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a legislative package to fight inflation, lower prescription costs for seniors, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing, and reduce carbon emissions by roughly 40 percent by 2030. The U.S. Senate passed this legislation earlier this week. The bill also takes historic steps to force Wall Street and corporations to pay the  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 14, 2022: * * * U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the unprecedented raid of former President Trump's residence: "The surprise FBI search of former President Trump's personal residence is unprecedented. Never h  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 15, 2022: * * * U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics showing that fentanyl seizures tripled in one month and with two months left in the fiscal y  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 16 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2022: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $1,200,000 from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Contract Tower (FCT) Program for the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport. The funding was made possible through the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and will su  more