DEFIANCE, Ohio, June 10 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 9, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a roundtable at VFW Post 3360 in Defiance to discuss new health care and disability benefits for veterans who have been harmed by toxic exposure while serving in the military. Veterans are now eligible for these benefits due to Brown's bipartisan Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Ac  more

BRYAN, Ohio, June 10 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 9, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined leaders from the Spangler Candy Company and Spangler workers with Teamsters Local 20 to tour Spangler's new Bit-O-Honey facility. Spangler directly attributes its ability to expand - moving the production of Bit-O-Honey candies to its Bryan headquarters and creating 40 new union jobs - to the passage of Brown's Butch Lewis Act. "This expansion a  more

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release and letter: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) just sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland revealing new information related to the raid of former President Donald Trump's residence and the Department of Justice's reported indictment of President Donald Trump. This information was obtained from the Committee's transcribed interview of Steven D'  more

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 8, 2023: Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced a $110,014.28 grant award to the City of Wauseon Fire Department through the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program. This program is administered by the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency in cooperation with the U.S. Fire Administration. The Wauseon Fire Department plan  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following newsletter on June 9, 2023: * * * Expanding Childcare in Rural Communities Parents should not have to choose between going to work to provide for their families and making sure their children are well cared for. Across Ohio, childcare is far too expensive and too hard to find - particularly in rural communities, where parents face unique challenges and have unique needs when it comes to caring for their children. That's   more

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing on May 31, 2023, entitled "Countering China: Advancing U.S. National Security, Economic Security, and Foreign Policy": * * * I call this hearing to order. For far too long, our policy around China catered to multinational corporations, and failed working families. It devastated local communities and it eroded our manufacturing base   more

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release and letter on June 8, 2023: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan revealing new evidence that strongly suggests that the FTC's actions against Elon Musk and Twitter are politically motivated. In October 2019, Twitter self-reported a privacy issue that led to a tentative settlement agreement between Twitter and the  more