WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) today announced $220,909 in federal funds to the City of Akron Fire Department. The award is an Assistance to Firefighters Operations and Safety Grant administered by the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in cooperation with the U.S. Fire Administration. "This funding will help the Akron Fire Department secure the equipment they need to ensure the brave men and women, who put t more PR

YOUNGTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) today applauded the United States International Trade Commission (USITC)'s affirmative ruling for Vallourec's antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVC) petitions. This is the final action in the investigation and ensures Vallourec and its employees will receive the intended relief from the impacts of unfairly dumped and subsidized imports of seamless pipe from Czechia, Korea, Russia, and Ukraine. "Unfortunatel more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 3, 2021, regarding the Biden administration's action to limit evictions: * * * "I applaud the Administration for this effort to protect renters from the public health crisis. "The troubling rise of the Delta variant means families need protection now more than ever. "While the order is in place, I again urge all state and local grantees to quickly provide rental assistance to families more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 4, 2021: * * * Sen. Sherrod Brown, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, released the following statement regarding Ranking Member Toomey's letter to President Biden urging him to withdraw Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nominees: Ms. Julia Gordon nominee, to be Assistant Secretary of HUD; and Mr. Solomon J. Greene, to be Assistan more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today hosted a news conference call on the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill that will include his Bridge Investment Act. Brown first introduced this bill in 2018. It will create and support jobs, make local economies more competitive, and improve the safety of Ohioans across the state. "Ohio's bridges are now literally crumbling around us," said Brown. "Right now, there are more than 3,200 bridges acros more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following transcript of an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box on Aug. 3, 2021: In an interview this morning on CNBC's Squawk Box, Senator Rob Portman touted the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act - landmark legislation he helped craft to upgrade and modernize America's aging infrastructure. The legislation is currently being considered by the Senate. During the interview, Portman also stressed that the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act is on a completely different track th more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for passing bipartisan legislation he introduced with Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) that will help bolster the federal workforce's understanding of artificial intelligence (AI). The bil more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today introduced a bill that would make federal court records free and easily accessible for all Americans. The bipartisan Open Courts Act, introduced by Wyden and U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, would reform the federal government's Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), a database of federal judicial filings. "For far too long, unnecessary paywalls have kept the American people from freely accessing public co more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh demanding the Department of Labor's (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) take action to establish a federal heat stress standard to protect U.S. workers exposed to excessive heat. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-VA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Dianne more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and a group of their colleagues in calling on Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh to direct the Department of Labor's (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to take action establishing a federal heat stress standard to protect workers exposed to excessive heat. Joining Senators Feinstein, Padilla and Brown in sending t more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh demanding the Department of Labor's (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) take action to establish a federal heat stress standard to protect U.S. workers exposed to excessive heat. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Kirsten more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for passing their bipartisan Domains Critical to Homeland Security Act to direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct resear more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for passing their bipartisan Deepfake Task Force Act to counter deepfake technology. Deepfakes are hyper-realistic, digital manipulations of more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for unanimously passing their bipartisan State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act to promote stronger cybersecurity coordination between the Department o more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Open Courts Act to reform the federal government's Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), a database of federal judicial filings. This consensus legislation builds off the Electronic Court Records Reform Act which Portman and Wyden introduced in 2019 with Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI). The PACER system is outdated and charges exorbitant fees to use more PR