WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a $547,846 grant to the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) to address the needs of underserved and veteran farmers, ranchers, and foresters. "Ohio farmers grow some of the best produce in the country, and we must make sure that all of our farmers have the resources they need to keep their   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $74,999,925 grant to Cirba Solutions in Lancaster to expand and upgrade its existing lithium-ion battery recycling facility. In June, Brown sent a letter of support for Cirba Solutions' project to the Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm. Funding for this investment was made possible through the bipartisan Infrastr  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Oct. 20, 2022: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Donald M. Remy toured the Chalmers P. Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Center in Columbus. During the visit, Brown and Remy met with facility leadership and frontline staff and discussed VA's electronic health record modernization and the facility's priorities. The Chalmers facility started using Oracle Cern  more

PIKETON, Ohio, Oct. 21 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13), member of the House Appropriations Committee's Energy and Water Subcommittee, invited Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to visit Pike County to discuss with local stakeholders issues pertaining to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) and the closure of Zahn's Corner Middle School. During the visit, Ryan and Manchin   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: This week, Reps. Dave Joyce (OH-14) and Haley Stevens (MI-11) introduced the Stop Nurse Shortages Act. This bipartisan legislation aims to address the national nurse shortage by authorizing a $10 million per year grant program to help nursing schools create, expand, or support an accelerated nursing degree program. It is endorsed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the American Associati  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) - Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development - announced the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded nearly $1.5 million in federal funding to projects focused on combatting harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a total of $1,478,701 to five proje  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release and letter: In a new letter, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Johnson (R-LA) accepted the offer made by attorneys for former Assistant Director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division and Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch Jill Sanborn to appear for a transcribed interview before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, December 2,   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing on Sept. 29, 2022, entitled "Examining Outbound Investment": * * * Earlier this year Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that, "Beijing wants to put itself at the center of global innovation and manufacturing, increase other countries' technological dependence, and then use that dependence to impose its foreign policy preference.  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following statement on Oct. 20, 2022: * * * U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, released the following statement after the Fifth Circuit determined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) funding structure unconstitutional. "Today, the Fifth Circuit chose to favor Wall Street over consumers. After more than a decade of coordinated and sustained atta  more