WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement as part of an Oct. 7, 2021, hybrid hearing on nominations for the Commerce and Housing and Urban Development Departments. The nominees are Matthew Axelrod to be assistant secretary of Commerce; Alanna McCargo to be president of the Government National Mortgage Association; and James Arthur Jemison II and Mark Colon to be assistant secretaries of Housing and Urban Development. * * * First, I wo more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement as part of a hybrid hearing on Oct. 5, 2021, entitled "Afghanistan's Future: Assessing the National Security, Humanitarian and Economic Implications of the Taliban Takeover": * * * In August, we finally ended twenty years of war in Afghanistan. Almost 125,000 people were airlifted out of the country in a few short weeks, because of the skill and courage of our troops and our diplomats and other more PR