WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced $1,696,698 to Central State University (CSU), a historically Black land-grant university in Wilberforce, Ohio, to strengthen its educational and research programs. The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded three grants to Central State University through its 1890 Capacity  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced $10,041,000 for emergency equipment and health care worker training in Southeast Ohio. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development office has awarded two grants to two health care providers as a part of the Community Facilities Emergency Rural Health Care program, which provides funding to help broaden access to rural   more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a news conference call to announce that an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the Senate voted to include two bills to protect American industries, technology, and farmland from foreign adversaries in the National Defense Authorization Act: the Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security (PASS) Act and the bipartisan Outbound Investment Transp  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the Senate voted today to include his bipartisan legislation protecting servicemembers from predatory debt collectors in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) - the country's annual defense bill. The Senate voted to add the legislation to the National Defense Bill by a vote of 95-2. Brown is a cosponsor of Senator Raphael Warnock's (D-G  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that his bipartisan All-American Flag Act was passed on a bipartisan vote out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. This bill would require the federal government to only buy flags completely produced and manufactured in the United States. The bill now heads to the full Senate for a vote. "American flags shoul  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Today, U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) announced legislation to ensure the safety and health of workers who are exposed to dangerous heat conditions in the workplace. The senators' bill, the Asuncion Valdivia Heat Stress Injury, Illness, and Fatality Prevention Act, is named in honor of Asuncion Valdivia who died in 2004 after picking grap  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release and letter: Ahead of tomorrow's oversight hearing, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting that the Secretary be ready to discuss in detail several aspects of the Administration's immigration policies. Chairman Jordan asked the Secretary to provide the following dat  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Free Speech Protection Act, which will prohibit executive branch employees and contractors from using their positions to censor and otherwise attack speech protected by the First A  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release and letter: On July 17, 2023, the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government conducted a transcribed interview of Laura Dehmlow, the Section Chief of the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF). During her transcribed interview, Dehmlow revealed that the same FBI personnel who were warning social media companies about a pot  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14) and Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) introduced the Project Spectrum Authorization Act. Project Spectrum, a program that operates within the Department of Defense Office of Small Business Information, was created under the Trump Administration to improve cybersecurity readiness, resiliency, and compliance for small and medium sized businesses looking to contract with the Departmen  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Rep. Robert E. Latta, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Congressman Bob Latta's (R-OH5) legislation to implement a federal framework for autonomous vehicles (AVs) was the topic of discussion during a congressional hearing on the Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce. Even with vehicle safety standards improving over the years, traffic-related accidents have steadily been on the rise. According to the Nati  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Today, as millions of Americans face extreme heat waves, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced the Asuncion Valdivia Heat, Illness, Injury and Fatality Prevention Act to protect the safety and health of workers who are exposed to dangerous heat conditions in the workplace. The legislation is named in honor of Asuncion   more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- Rep. Emilia Strong Sykes, D-Ohio, issued the following statement on July 25, 2023, and a letter: * * * U.S. Representative Emilia Strong Sykes (OH-13) issued a statement after United Parcel Service (UPS) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. The historic deal would raise wages for all workers, create more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements. "Congratulations to the 340,00  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care issued the following testimony by Life Connection of Ohio President and CEO Matthew Wadsworth involving a hearing on July 20, 2023, entitled "The Cost of Inaction and the Urgent Need to Reform the U.S. Transplant System": * * * Chairman Cardin, Ranking Member Daines, and Members of the Committee. My name is Matthew Wadsworth, and I serve as the President and CEO of Life Connection of Ohio, the Organ Procurement Organization   more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Senator JD Vance (R-OH) has introduced the Bank Failure Prevention Act, which would improve bank supervision and regulation for insured state banks with assets of $100 billion or more. Under this legislation, such institutions overseen by the Federal Reserve or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as their primary federal regulator would instead fall under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Comptroller  more