WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: WEIRTON, W.V. Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined Cleveland-Cliffs leadership and USW Local 2911 members at the site of the future transformer manufacturing plant that Cleveland-Cliffs is building at its former tin mill in Weirton, West Virginia. This facility will employ workers from Jefferson County, Ohio and the surrounding region. Cleveland-Cliffs announced the new electrical transformer manuf  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: 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 a Safer Streets for All grant to five Northwest Ohio communities. The program funds regional and local initiatives through grants to prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries. The investment was made possible by the Bipartisan Infra  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: 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 a $9,750,276 Safer Streets for All grant to the City of Hamilton to implement citywide safety improvements across 50 intersections, as well as safety upgrades on a portion of the State Route 4 corridor that runs through Hamilton. The S  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), and John Fetterman (D-PA) called on U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to reduce the current import quota set for South Korea Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) to reflect the lower demand and to level the playing field for the domestic OCTG industry and its workers. The reduced demand and out-of-date quota has affect  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (TNSres) -- Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2024: Today, the House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement released an interim report regarding Kindu Jeancy Zamambu, an illegal alien from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who brutally assaulted a woman at a hotel in Cheektowaga, New York. Zamambu was released into the U.S. on February 15  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, issued the following news release: Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) led an official visit to Taiwan, Cambodia, and Laos last week. Chairman Wenstrup met with senior political and public health leaders, visited high and low risk laboratories, and observed multiple wet markets. As neighbors to China -- the or  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 30, 2024: * * * Today, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (OH-10) issued the following statement about the three-year anniversary of the final American forces withdrawing from Afghanistan: "Today marks the three-year anniversary of the last American forces leaving Afghanistan. "The Biden Administration's   more

TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 31 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced the US Department of Transportation will award $24.5 Million to Lucas, Ottawa, Wood and Sandusky counties as part of its Safe Streets and Roads for All Program (SS4A). The funding award follows a previous $400,000 award in SS4A funding received by Lucas, Wood, Ottawa, and Sandusky Counties in the first round of SS4A funding in February 2023. "We are making   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today called out the hypocrisy of Senator J.D. Vance's (R-OH) inflammatory comments about the City of Chicago while he simultaneously blocks the confirmation of federal prosecutors, including the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. For months, Durbin repeatedl  more