WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Surface Transportation Board (STB), urging them to block the proposed merger between Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS), which would combine the sixth- and seventh-largest U.S. railroads by revenue. The Senator sent the letter following the derailment and massive chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio and highlighted the  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on March 3, 2023: Representative Troy Balderson (OH-12) and Representative Annie Kuster (NH-2) on Friday introduced the Spectrum Coordination Act, which seeks to foster a more collaborative spectrum coordination agreement between the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). "Spectrum is at the epicenter of virtually all modern wireless   more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the Department of Transportation has awarded a $2,000,000 University Transportation Centers (UTC) grant to The Ohio State University's Center for Automated Vehicle Research with Multimodal Assured Navigation (CARMEN). "With our long history of the Ohio auto industry leading the country and the world, our state is the obvious choice to lead this innovative resea  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Economic Development Administration awarded a $26,000 grant to Erie County to develop a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for Erie and Huron counties in partnership with economic development organizations, local governments, and community stakeholders. "Ohio workers can compete with anyone in the world, and this investment will help th  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Reconnecting Communities Pilot program has awarded Akron a $960,000 grant to create a community-based plan that will transform a vacated portion of Akron's Innerbelt (State Route 59) to better serve Akron residents. "This investment will help create new space for the public in Akron," Brown said. "The Bipartisan Inf  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brown (D-OH) applauded the U.S. International Trade Commission's (ITC) unanimous affirmative preliminary determination in response to antidumping and countervailing duty petitions on tin and chromium coated sheet steel products (tin mill products) filed by Cleveland-Cliffs and the United Steelworkers (USW). This affirmative preliminary determination relates to petitions seeking antidumping duties   more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined a bipartisan group of colleagues to applaud the unanimous Senate passage of his bipartisan legislation to help police, fire, emergency medical, and 911 personnel cope with the stresses of responding to crisis situations. The Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2023 would establish mental health programs for America's first responders who often have long-term   more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bob Casey (D-PA) sent a letter to President Biden urging him to rescind the suspension of market-balancing tariffs on Chinese solar product importers in four southeast Asian countries - Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam - to level the playing field for American manufacturers and workers and give them the opportunity to better compete in the global economy.   more

WHEELING, West Virginia, March 4 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 3, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today traveled to Hancock and Ohio counties for visits focused on health services, Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) projects, and economic development in West Virginia. First, Senator Capito visited the new Hancock County Health Center, which is partially funded through CDS funding. During the visit, Senator Capit  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) today led their colleagues in applauding the unanimous Senate passage of their bipartisan legislation to establish mental health programs for America's first responders. The Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2023 would help police, fire, emergency medical and 911 personnel who face long-term mental health effects as a result of providing  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Following the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has repeatedly advocated for resources for the community and is working to hold Norfolk Southern accountable for the cleanup and to make the community whole. On Wednesday, Brown led U.S. Senators JD Vance (R-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), John Fetterman (D-PA), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) in introducing  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on March 3, 2023, and letter: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), alongside Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Mark Warner (D-Va.), led an effort urging financial institutions and regulators to help people keep their hard-earned cash safe from fraud and scams, especially as scammers find new ways and employ sophisticated schemes to dupe customers using inst  more