WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined a bipartisan group of colleagues to pass legislation to protect children online and hold Big Tech accountable. The Kids Online Safety Act, which Brown cosponsored, will provide parents and young people with the tools, safeguards, and transparency they need to better protect against online social harms and data collection, such as the promotion of suicide, eating   more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Yesterday , U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) led a bipartisan group of colleagues in calling on the Biden administration to block taxpayer money from being used to subsidize biofuels produced using imported foreign feedstocks such as Chinese used cooking oil and Brazilian ethanol. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Brown and colleagues called on the administration to r  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, delivered the following opening statement at today's hearing entitled, "Long-Term Economic Benefits and Impacts from Federal Infrastructure and Public Transportation Investment." Sen. Brown's remarks, as prepared for delivery follow: For too long, too many people in Ohio and across the nation th  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Today, the Biden-Harris Administration and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced(link is external) that payments have been issued to more than 43,000 farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who experienced discrimination in USDA farm lending programs prior to January 2021, including 118 Ohioans. The payments were made under the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program, established   more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) authored an op-ed for The Senior Citizens League's (TSCL) publication, The Social Security and Medicare Advisor highlighting the need to make certain that individuals have the option to receive paper receipts and statements from U.S. financial institutions. Read the full text of the op-ed below: Congressional Corner: Protecting Seniors' Access to Banking Services The way we   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on July 31, 2024: Today, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability released an interim staff report titled, "The Scandal Around the Biden-Harris Administration's Site-Selection Process for a New FBI Headquarters." The report highlights the scandalous process leading up to the General Services Administration's (GSA) decision to se  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on July 31, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, delivered the following opening statement at today's hearing entitled, "Long-Term Economic Benefits and Impacts from Federal Infrastructure and Public Transportation Investment." Sen. Brown's remarks, as prepared  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that his bipartisan All-American Flag Act was signed into law. The law requires the federal government to only buy American flags completely produced and manufactured in the United States, with 100 percent American-made materials. Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed the legislation. In November 2023, the Senate unanimously  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on July 31, 2024: U.S. Congressman Max Miller (OH-07) today highlighted milestones that he and his team accomplished in his first 18 months in office. Miller and his staff worked to return millions of dollars that belonged to Ohioans, make federal agencies more efficient, introduce and pass commonsense legislation, and more. "Making the federal government work better for Ohioans is my top priority in Congress," s  more