WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: VALLEY VIEW, OH - Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that Brown's Butch Lewis Act has saved the pensions of nearly 530 members of the Teamsters Local 73 Pension Plan. Their pension plan will receive $7.5 million in pension restoration funding from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), allowing the plan to pay out the full benefits retirees earned to these Ohioans' pensions. This res  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: As Americans mark Tax Day 2024, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the Carried Interest Fairness Act today to eliminate a tax loophole that benefits wealthy money managers on Wall Street. The current carried interest loophole allows investment managers to often pay roughly half the tax rate that most other Ohio workers' pay. Brown was joined by U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Joe Manchin (D-W  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: TOLEDO, OH - Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined Doni Miller, CEO of Neighborhood Health Association, Gregory Kramp, Pharmacist at Neighborhood Health Association, as well as Ohioan Terry Hinkle to discuss his fight to lower insulin prices for Ohioans. During the event, Brown highlighted how the $35 monthly cap on the cost of insulin, made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act that Brown helped   more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: Today Congresswoman Joyce Beatty visited with World Language Middle School students participating in the SIFMA Foundation's Capitol Hill Challenge program, underwritten by the Charles Schwab Foundation. This national 14-week financial education competition pairs individual members of Congress with high-needs public schools in every congressional district, equipping middle and high school stud  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on March 7, 2024, entitled "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress": * * * The Fed has immense power in shaping our economy. Your job is clear: promote stable prices and maximum employment. Today, the cost of living is still far too expensive for most Americans. The Fed only has one tool available to fight t  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing in March 12, 2024, entitled "Examining Proposals to Address Housing Affordability, Availability, and Other Community Needs": * * * In every part of the country, everywhere you turn, housing is too expensive and families have too few housing options. High interest rates are pushing homeownership further out of reach for families wh  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Examining Boeing's Broken Safety Culture: Firsthand Accounts" at 11:15 a.m. on April 17, 2024, at 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Witnesses: * Sam Salehpour, Current Quality Engineer, Boeing * Ed Pierson, Executive Director, The Foundation for Aviation Safety, Former Boeing Engineer * Joe Jacobsen, Aerospace Engine  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following newsletter on on April 15, 2024: * * * For the last year, we've been fighting to stop a proposed Department of Energy rule that would have put the supply chain for transformers at risk and threatened hundreds of Ohio steel jobs. Transformers, the metal boxes on powerline poles, are crucial to our electric grid. And when storms knock out transformers and power lines, it takes too many communities too long to get the power  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: DAYTON, OHIO - Yesterday, Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) announced the winner of the Tenth Congressional District's 2024 Congressional Art Competition. More than 200 students from Ohio's 10th District submitted their work for this year's competition. The winner of this year's competition is Meela Seaquist, a 12th grade student at Dayton Christian School. Meela's winning artwork was selected by a panel of j  more