WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 6, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the Economic Development Administration has awarded a $2 million grant to the Adams County Regional Water District in West Union for water infrastructure upgrades to serve the Winchester Industrial Park. "To grow Ohio's economy, we need to ensure that rural businesses and communities have the infrastructure they need," said Brown. "Investm  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter on July 6, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), and John Fetterman (D-PA) backed a new proposed rule from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) that will require railroads to make real-time information regarding the contents of train cars available to emergency responders and to proactively push this information to emergency responders in the   more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter on July 6, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Tina Smith (D-MN) are urging Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra to take action to protect consumers from scams and fraud caused by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in consumer financial products. The lawmakers raised concerns over AI voice cloning techn  more

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 7 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 6, 2023: Today, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined local leaders and law enforcement personnel at the Youngstown Police Department to discuss his Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, a sanctions and anti-money laundering bill aimed at combatting the country's fentanyl crisis and saving lives in Ohio by targeting the illicit fentanyl supply chain, from the chemic  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter on June 29, 2023: Today, Congressman Max Miller and 15 of his colleagues, including Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08), Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (AK-04), and Veterans Committee Chairman Mike Bost (IL-12), sent a letter to the Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, highlighting major concerns with the Department's proposed "gainful employment" rule that coul  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 6, 2023: Senator JD Vance joined NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday to discuss the fentanyl crisis, including the role the U.S. military could have in defeating the cartels, the economic drivers of addiction, and the role the Chinese Communist Party plays in allowing the export of fentanyl precursor chemicals. Read excerpts below: * * * Senator Vance on U.S. military action against drug cartels: "I want t  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, issued the following news release and letter on July 6, 2023: Senator JD Vance (R-OH) sent a letter to the presidents of the Ivy League universities, as well as Oberlin College and Kenyon College, regarding their plans to circumvent the recently decided Supreme Court case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which declared racial preferences in college admissions unconstitutional. In the wake of the decision, a number of these university presi  more