WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: The Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs released snapshots highlighting the consumer abuses of two of the nation's largest megabanks, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo - along with Bank of America, Citi, Truist, PNC, and U.S. Bank - play an outsized role in our   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) together with Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) introduced bipartisan legislation, H.R. 8885, the Better Health Care Directories Act, Monday to ensure that insurance plans regularly update their provider directories and include information about whether a provider is accepting new patients as well as whether a provider offers in-person or telehealth appointments. The legislation passed the Hous  more

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2022: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) today announced that the Department of Labor (DOL) is awarding the state of Ohio $6,840,000 to enhance awareness and improve delivery of unemployment insurance benefits. The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan, which Ryan helped pass in the House. "I'm grateful to see our American Rescue Plan dollars support our state's unemployment insurance system to   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) voted for the bipartisan Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act, which will now head to the President's desk to be signed into law. The bipartisan Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act would allow both borrowers, who combined their loans as a married couple, to submit a joint application to the U.S. Department of Education to split their joint consolidation loan into two separate f  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) championed a resolution of inquiry Tuesday to investigate the billions lost to unemployment insurance (UI) fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic and request communications from the Department of Labor (DOL) establishing DOL's knowledge of taxpayer dollars sent to organized cybercrime, foreign actors, and international crime rings. Rep. Wenstrup's resolution of inquiry received bi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) joined House Ways and Means Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee leaders in introducing legislation to honor the late Congresswoman Walorski by reauthorizing the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program. The evidence based bill increases funding for services that aid new parents and their children from before birth through kindergarten with i  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following commentary to Modern Healthcare on Sept. 19, 2022: * * * Government should stop interfering in the doctor-patient relationship After years as a practicing podiatrist, I came to Congress because I saw people serving in government--who had never taken care of patients--making healthcare decisions that interfere with the trusted and sacred relationship between doctor and patient. For the sake of patient health, Washington n  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Chabot (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, and Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), senior member of the Subcommittee on Asia, recently introduced H.R. 8842, the Accelerating Arms Transfers to Taiwan Act. "Taiwan faces an existential threat from the People's Republic of China, a threat which the Taiwan Relations Act recognizes has profound implications for A  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the Economic Development Administration (EDA) has jointly awarded a $176,000 grant to Bowling Green State University and Ohio University. The award will fund the University Center Economic Development Program, which supports the Rural Universities Consortium (RUC). The RUC program will provide communities and regional partners with technical assistance, applied  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a news conference call about the consumer abuses of the nation's largest consumer banks ahead of the hearing he will hold Thursday with the banks' CEOs as Chair of the Senate Banking and Housing Committee. Brown was joined by Tarra Troutman, an Ohioan who looked at her bank account one day and found herself overdrawn and thousands of dollars in debt. Brown began the annu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) in sending a bipartisan letter to Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Lloyd Austin and White House officials to urge increased funding for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) testing and remediation, and to improve PFAS-related planning to make use of the higher funding levels Congress is wi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2022: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), Co-Chairs of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, met with Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Andriy Kostin to discuss the efforts to investigate and prosecute cases of war crimes conducted by Russia in Ukraine. Portman released the following statement: "The United States stands with Ukraine and its efforts to hold Russia accountable for its heinous wa  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, pressed the nominee for Archivist for the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan, on her partisan and controversial views. In 2007, Dr. Shogan wrote an article titled "Anti-Intellectualism in the Modern Presidency: A Rep  more