WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Troy Balderson today cosponsored the Putting Investors First Act, legislation aimed at ensuring pension funds put the financial interests of investors ahead of woke initiatives. H.R. 9527 (https://steil.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/steil.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2022-12-08-putting-investors-first-act-bill-text.pdf) reins in proxy advisors and limits their influence over American corpora  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), along with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), as well as Representatives Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio-16), Annie Kuster (N.H.-02), Guy Reschenthaler (Pa.-14), and Lucy McBath (Ga.-06) celebrated the Senate's passage of the END Child Exploitation Act. This legislation doubles the mandatory time period for preservi  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Dec. 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 CFPB announced new enforcement actions against Wells Fargo. The CFPB order requires Wells Fargo to pay $3.7 billion for mismanagement and hurting consumers. "This is what happens when you have an agency on the side of working families - not W  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Alex Padilla (D-CA) reintroduced a Senate Resolution to declare racism a public health crisis. Brown, Booker, and then-Senator Kamala Harris first introduced the legislation in July 2020, and Brown reintroduced it again with Senators Booker and Padilla in April 2021. "We will not make progress until we acknowledge and address all of the ways that centur  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter: In a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) have called on the Biden administration for greater efforts to capitalize on the bipartisan momentum and success of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by expanding trade relationships with willing partners in our own hemisphere, beginning with Ecuad  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2022, and letter: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) sent a letter today to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to urge swift action on updating energy efficiency standards for federally backed homes. Currently, federally backed homes are only required to meet energy conservation stand  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter on Dec. 20, 2022: To ensure government agencies can use data for research while protecting Americans' privacy and security, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) today urged the National Science Foundation (NSF) to secure Americans' information within the National Secure Data Service (NSDS) platform using advanced encryption technology. "The NSDS platform will enable government agencie  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that the final FY 2023 bipartisan funding agreement includes $1.01 billion in new resources to address addiction through his bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction & Recovery Act (CARA), which became law in 2016. CARA was a bipartisan, national effort designed to ensure that federal resources were devoted to evidence-based education, treatment and recovery programs that work  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- 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 Legacy Communities LLC, a real-estate company that owns multiple manufactured housing communities in Ohio. The letter follows several complaints from Ohioans regarding drastic rent increases and service reductions in El  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) applauded the inclusion of significant retirement security reform measures included in the newly unveiled end-of-year spending package. Of the many provisions included in the package, 45 of those are based on the Senators' bipartisan legislation S. 1770, the Retirement Security and Savings Act, which was introduced earlier this Congress and passed the Senate  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2022, and letter: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was joined today by Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) in urging the Biden administration to engage the Governments of Ecuador and Uruguay in trade agreement negotiations. In a new letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of State Antony Bli  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Ore.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), all members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio.) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressing concern over reports that military families are being forced to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with privatized milita  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter on Dec. 20, 2022: To ensure government agencies can use data for research while protecting Americans' privacy and security, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, today urged the National Science Foundation (NSF) to secure Americans' information within the National Secure Data Service (NSDS) platform using advanced encryption technology. "The NSDS platform will enable government age  more