WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that Akron was designated a Regional Technology and Innovation Hub (Tech Hub), which will build on Akron's historic leadership in the rubber industry and position the region to lead in producing sustainable polymers - the next generation of rubber and plastics. The Department of Commerce Tech Hubs Program was created by Brown's CHIPS Act to   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) urged the president to award Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. the country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. "Today, we are lucky to have the opportunity to celebrate a living hero of the civil rights movement, who has given decades of service to the people of Ohio and to our country, and has given hope to people all over the world. I ask th  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and John Fetterman (D-PA) introduced the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, a bill to allow retired first responders--including police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel--to buy into Medicare beginning at age 50. "Ohio firefighters and other first-responders wear their bo  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led seven of his colleagues in pushing President Joe Biden to prioritize additional resources to strengthen the security at the southwest border to stop the flow of illicit drugs like fentanyl through ports of entry along the border. As overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows drugs are overwhelmin  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on Sept. 27, 2023, entitled "Science and Technology at the EPA": * * * I want to welcome everybody to this morning's hearing, Science and Technology at the Environmental Protection Agency. I'm pleased to welcome EPA Administrator, Michael Regan, for the very first time in front of the Science Committee. In fact, th  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Rep. Robert E. Latta, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2023: Today, Congressman Bob Latta's (R-OH5) bipartisan legislation, the Nuclear Fuel Security Act, was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security. The bill will establish and expand critical U.S. nuclear fuel programs to boost domestic uranium mining, production, enrichment, and conversion capacity. Latta introduced the bill last month with Repres  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on Oct. 24, 2023: * * * U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the final Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rule issued by the Federal Reserve Board (Fed), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Curren  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, joined the Charleston Area Alliance Board of Directors meeting and the North Central West Virginia Business Summit to discuss the recent selection by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) of the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2)   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator JD Vance (R-OH) has filed an amendment to the Senate minibus appropriations bill that would prohibit the Department of Transportation from using any federal funds to enforce mask mandates in response to the COVID-19 virus through the current fiscal year. The ban would prevent federal mask mandates on passenger airlines, commuter rail, rapid transit buses, and any other transportation pr  more