WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded 11 Safer Streets for All grants totaling $2,019,126 to communities across Ohio.Theprogram funds regional, local and Tribal initiatives through grants to prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries. The investment wa  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) released the following statement on the announcement that UAW reached a tentative agreement with GM: "American autoworkers have been underestimated time and again - from politicians who wanted to let their industry go bankrupt, to companies that thought they could keep workers from sharing in their record profits. Like all strikes, this was always a last re  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb demanding information on his politically motivated investigation of Leonard Leo and certain nonprofit groups he is affiliated with. Leonard Leo was baselessly accused of receiving "excessive paymen  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to the chief executive officers of Alphabet, Apple, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, and Attorney General Garland demanding information on the Department of Justice's attempts to surveil Members of Congress and congressional staff by obtaining information about their private communications. On October 19, 202  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (TNSres) -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: The House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim staff report titled, "Fighting the Weaponization of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS): The End of Abusive Unannounced Field Visits." The report reveals how the IRS committed alarming civil liberties abuses, including an unannounced, unpr  more

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 1 -- Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Greg Landsman (OH-01) released the following statement in response to the Speaker's decision to take the emergency supplemental request for Israel, humanitarian assistance in Gaza, Ukraine, and border security - a measure that will be taken up by the Senate in a bipartisan way - and instead put forward a bill that pits funding for Israel against public sector workers and going after tax cheats  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Rep. Emilia Strong Sykes, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, U.S. Representatives Emilia Sykes (OH-13) and Dave Joyce (OH-14) introduced the Fair Social Security for Domestic Violence Survivors Act which would expand access to Social Security spousal benefits for individuals who divorce due to domestic abuse. "We know that many spouses don't leave unsafe marriages simply because they can't affor  more

DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 1 -- Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Oct. 31, 2023: Today, Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, Jeff Hoagland, President and CEO of the Dayton Development Coalition, and Susan Edwards, President of Wright State University, held a press conference at Wright State University's Student Union to talk about the importance of the   more