WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: To celebrate Flag Day, June 14, 2023, Congressman Troy Balderson (R-OH) introduced legislation yesterday to require American flags displayed on federal property or procured by federal agencies to be manufactured completely in the United States from American materials. He is joined by Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Mike Johnson (R-LA), and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). "Flying Americ  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet alongside U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) led 35 of their Senate colleagues to reintroduce the Working Families Tax Relief Act. This legislation would cut taxes for Coloradans by expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Earned Income Tax Credit (  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded four Airport Improvement Program grants totaling $1,091,386 to four airports in Northwest Ohio. "Ohio airports are vital infrastructure supporting travel and commerce in our state," Brown said. "These investments will enhance safety and operations at Northwest Ohio airpor  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded five Airport Improvement Program grants totaling $1,866,266 to five airports in Central Ohio. "Ohio airports are vital infrastructure supporting travel and commerce in our state," Brown said. "These investments will enhance safety and operations at Central Ohio airports a  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded four Airport Improvement Program grants totaling $4,867,314 to four airports in Northeast Ohio. "Ohio airports are vital infrastructure supporting travel and commerce in our state," Brown said. "These investments will enhance safety and operations at Northeast Ohio airpor  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: Today, during a Senate Committee on Finance hearing titled "Anti-Poverty and Family Support Provisions in the Tax Code," U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called for an expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) to cut taxes for families and help them keep up with the rising cost of living. Brown also introduced Ohio mother Melissa Lester, who shared what the expansion of the CTC meant to her and her fam  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) convened more than 30 Ohio college and university presidents for his 16th annual College Presidents Conference in Washington, D.C. The Conference brings together Ohio education leaders of Ohio's 4-year and 2-year universities, colleges, community colleges and technical schools to discuss ways to expand opportunity for Ohioans and prepare them for jobs i  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined the Cincinnati Chamber's Washington D.C. fly-in, and discussed key wins for Southwest Ohio - including infrastructure improvements delivered in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, regional investments in economic development, and priorities Brown secured in Congressional Directed Spending. Brown also discussed his bipartisan Railway Safety Act tha  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) led 41 Senate Democrats in reintroducing the Working Families Tax Relief Act. At a time when costs are higher than ever for parents and wages have failed to keep up with corporate profits, the Working Families Tax Relief Act would cut taxes for  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter on June 15, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, along with Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Dan Schulman, President and CEO of PayPal, in response to reports of widespread fraud and scams on Venmo, a peer to peer instant payments platform owned by PayPal. The l  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: This week, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Gary Peters (D-MI) introduced the All-American Flag Act, which would require the federal government to only buy flags completely produced and manufactured in the United States. "American flags should be made in America, period," said Senator Brown. "Today, half of the materials that our women and men   more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown hosted a conference call with Ohio parents and farmers to discuss his efforts to make child care more available and affordable in rural communities. Brown's bipartisan Expanding Childcare in Rural America (ECRA) Act of 2023 would help improve the availability and quality, and lower the cost, of childcare in agricultural and rural communities. Since announcing  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) and U.S. Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3) and Neal Dunn (R-FL-2) introduced the Import Security and Fairness Act, which would close a key loophole that foreign companies exploit to avoid paying duties and fees to unfairly compete with Ohio businesses. Right now, packages under $800 in valuation are exempted from U.S. dut  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) has introduced the Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act (EBT Act) new legislation to protect Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) retailers and beneficiaries from transaction fees. Congresswoman Brown's legislation would ensure that retailers are only responsible for their own costs as the federal government modernizes the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)   more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, issued the following news release: Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled "Churches vs. Casinos: The Constitution is not Suspended in Times of Crisis" to examine the constitutionality of federal, state, and local actions during the COVID-19 pandemic that infringed on the civil liberties  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: During today's House Appropriations Subcommittee markup of the 2024 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill, House Republicans passed a bill that reneges on the debt limit agreement that was just signed into law, raises costs for families, and weakens energy security and our ability to out-compete China. For 2024, the Energy and Water bill provides $55.2 Billion, a decre  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has called on the Biden Administration to choose Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Dayton as the headquarters for the U.S. Space Command and to locate additional U.S. Space Force units in Ohio, in partnership with the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center's Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky. Ohio mayors and leading economic development orga  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Emilia Strong Sykes, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: This week, U.S. Representative Emilia Strong Sykes (OH-13) voted 'no' on House Republicans' H.R. 1615 and H.R. 1640. H.R. 1615 would make it more difficult for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to study and address the potential hazards posed to our children by gas stove emissions, while H.R. 1640 would prevent the U.S. Department of Energy from finalizing an efficiency standard tha  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Emilia Strong Sykes, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Today, U.S. Representative Emilia Strong Sykes (OH-13), along with Reps. Yadira Caraveo, M.D. (CO-08) and Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Ranking Member on the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, introduced the Food Access and Stability Act, a new bill that would make permanent the Special Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit expansion that recently passed in the Bipartisan Budget   more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, along with Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Dan Schulman, President and CEO of PayPal, in response to reports of widespread fraud and scams on Venmo, a peer to peer ins  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), the leaders of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, announced an agreement on the Recovering Executive Compensation Obtained from Unaccountable Practices (RECOUP) Act. The bill would protect the American taxpayer and hold senior executives of failed banks   more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), in conjunction with U.S. Representatives Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, today introduced the Reb  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) reintroduced the Student Loan Refinancing Act alongside Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), and Congressman Lloyd Doggett (TX-37). This bipartisan legislation would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 by creating a pathway for federal student loan holders to refinance their loans while still remaining public borrowers.  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) reintroduced a resolution expressing support for the designation of June 19, 2023 as "World Sickle Cell Awareness Day" to increase public awareness about sickle cell disease and the continued need for research, early detection, and effective treatments that lead to a cure. U.S. Representative  more