WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led a bipartisan commemorative reading of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail in the United States Senate chamber. Former Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) initiated the annual floor reading in 2019. Brown was joined for the letter reading by U.S. Senators Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Bob Casey (D-PA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Boozman   more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Following passage of congressional action to overturn the Biden Administration's suspension of tariffs on Chinese solar product importers - and following years work to level the playing field for American manufacturers and workers - U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) released the following statement. "This vote was a simple choice: do you stand with American manufacturers and American workers, or do you stand wi  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and U.S. Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA-04) along with 37 additional senators and 80 representatives, introduced legislation to stop the use of unfair forced arbitration clauses, which are widely used to prevent Americans from seeking justice when corporations cheat and scam them. The FAIR (Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal) Act would eliminat  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a news conference call to announce that the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) will be investing more than $40 million to establish the Appalachian Regional Food Business Center (RFBC) in partnership with Rural Action, Inc., based in The Plains, Ohio. The Appalachian RFBC will help build and strengthen local and regional food systems, enabling more Ohio farmers and prod  more

CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 4 -- Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: Congressman Landsman was part of a bipartisan congressional trip to Jordan and Israel, led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The congressional delegation spent April 29th in Jordan with official briefings and a discussion with the King. The delegation then spent two days in Israel to celebrate its 75th anniversary as a nation. The trip also included official briefings and discussions with th  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) cosponsored the bipartisan Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, along with Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Tim Scott (S.C.), to tackle the country's fentanyl epidemic by cracking down on transnational drug trafficking schemes. This bipartisan bill would strengthen current law by directing the Treasury Department to tar  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: This week, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), was joined by Donna and Jeff Heck Co-Founders of 33 Forever, Terry Russell Executive Director of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Ohio, Scott Sylak Executive Director of the Mental Health and Recovery Services of Lucas County and local community mental health advocates on the first day of National Mental Health Awareness Month to announce $2   more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: Yesterday, on the Senate Floor, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called on his colleagues to join him in voting in favor of congressional action to overturn the Biden Administration's suspension of tariffs on Chinese solar product importers, to level the playing field for American manufacturers and workers. The Department of Commerce (DOC) released preliminary findings that Chinese solar panel pr  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Rep. Emilia Strong Sykes, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: In an effort to raise student achievement in the classroom, and rebuild the educator pipeline, U.S. Representatives Emilia Strong Sykes (OH-13), Alma Adams (NC-12), Ruben Gallego (AZ-03), along with Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI),Bob Casey (D-PA), and Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) introduced H.R. 2992, the EDUCATORS for America Act. The EDUCATORS Act will invest in states and educators to improve the educato  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on May 3, 2023: * * * U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules enhancing stock buyback disclosures. "Americans need to know that instead of raising wages, scaling up production, a  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: Senator JD Vance (R-OH) delivered remarks at a press conference with Senate Republicans regarding ongoing debt ceiling negotiations. "What Joe Biden has done is refuse to negotiate from the very beginning," said Senator JD Vance. "He's basically playing Russian roulette with the country's finances and telling Republicans they need to do exactly what he wants them to do or he's going to drive the Ame  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senators JD Vance (R-OH) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) have introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure that all goods sold online list their country-of-origin in order to protect Americans' right to know where the products they buy are made and promote American-made goods for online shoppers. Unlike products sold in-person, products sold online are not currently required to disclose their country-o  more