WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today led Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) in a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. The letter criticizes the Biden administration's plan to expand Obamacare coverage to over 100,000 illegal immigrants protected under the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. I  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is pushing the Biden Administration to ban all Chinese internet-connected vehicles and smart vehicle technology that is designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied from China. Connected vehicles - both those with internal combustion engines and electric vehicles - collect, transmit, and store a range of sensitive information, including biometric data like fingerprints and voice re  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the independent review of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) workplace culture. "The FDIC needs to be fixed. The women and men who work there deserve better," said Brown. "Chair Gruenberg must accept responsibility and must immediately work to ma  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has led a bipartisan group of colleagues in calling on the Biden Administration to side with American workers and manufacturers in its antidumping investigation into imported mattresses. More than 12,000 Americans work for U.S. mattress producers, including hundreds of Ohioans at the Tempur Sealy International Plant in Medina and Serta Simmons in Monroe. Brown was joined by U.S. Sena  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- 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 House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland referring Michael Cohen to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for lying to Congress. The letter reminds the Justice Department of Cohen's lies to Congress in February 2019 and asks what the DOJ has don  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic recently reviewed classified U.S. Department of State (State Department) documents that credibly suggest COVID-19 originated from a lab related accident in Wuhan, China. The documents also strongly convey that the Chinese Communist Party attempted to cover-up the lab leak and that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) maintains a relationship with the Chinese P  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF12653) on May 7, 2024, by agricultural policy analyst Joel L. Greene: * * * Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Dairy Herds The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed a strain (H5N1) of highly pathogenic avian Influenza A virus (HPAI) in dairy herds in Texas and Kansas on March 25, 2  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: * * * Cotton, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Overhaul Workforce Education Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the American Workforce Act, legislation that would overhaul workforce education. Funding from the bill--paid for in part by taxing wealthy private college endowments--would provide training vouchers to pay for education programs designed by employers. Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) is co-spon  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) announced a subpoena to compel Dr. David Morens -- a top advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases -- to appear for a public hearing on May 22, 2024. Dr. Morens will  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Brad Wenstrup (OH-02), Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, led the latest installment of the House Intelligence Committee's "Beyond the SCIF" series for the 118th Congress with his panel "A Conversation on AI and Biosecurity" in collaboration with the American Enterprise Institute. Click here to watch th  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), JD Vance (R-Ohio), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) introduced an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2023 to strengthen the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), complete the equipment removal of China-based companies, Huawei and ZTE, and allow the FCC to rea  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Today, Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14) announced $7,789,206 in funding awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for public housing authorities (PHAs) in Northeast Ohio. Specifically, PHAs can utilize this funding for the development, financing, modernization, and management improvements of public housing developments. "From replacing roofs to installing water conservation  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03) joined House Assistant Minority Leader Joe Neguse and prominent reproductive rights champions from across the House Democratic Caucus to address recent Republican attacks on fertility care and reproductive rights. The press conference highlighted efforts by extreme MAGA Republicans in several states to endanger reproductive and fertility health programs, cr  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Senators JD Vance (R-OH) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) introduced an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2024 to provide $6 billion of new funding to the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), complete the equipment removal of China-based companies Huawei and ZTE through $3 billion of funding for the "rip and replace" program, and allow the FCC to reauction certain spectrum lice  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, issued the following news release: Following a recent report from VA's Office of Inspector General, Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.), U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Angus King (I-Maine) are pressing VA to take immediate action to improve oversight of its Community Care Network contracts to ensure veterans have timely access to providers in the community. "We write today to express our frustration with t  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Today, U.S. Congressman Max Miller (OH-07) introduced the American Workforce Act, a bill to overhaul workforce education. The legislation provides high school graduates with a $9,000 workforce training voucher to participate in education programs designed by employers and taught by validated trade associations, community colleges, high-schools, non-profits, or labor unions. The vouchers will be paid   more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today led a bipartisan group of colleagues in calling on the Senate Appropriations Committee to return to robustly funding the standard Community Facilities Program and the Water and Waste Disposal Program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA RD) Office. The letter was sent to the bipartisan leadership of the Appropriations Committee and was signed by Sen. Wel  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, and Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, joined Sens. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), JD Vance (R-Ohio), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) in filing an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthor  more