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WASHINGTON – Today, Representatives Shontel M. Brown (OH-11), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Adam Kinzinger (IL-16), and Tim Ryan (OH-13) introduced the All-American Flag Act, bipartisan legislation that would require the federal government to only purchase flags that are 100 percent made in America.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) supported passage in the House of Representatives of the Financial Services Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Economic Justice Act. The bill includes an amendment offered by Rep. Brown that would strengthen reporting requirements on labor force participation among working families with children.  

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) joined Reps. Dave Joyce (OH-14), Mike Turner (OH-10), and Deborah Ross (NC-02) in introducing the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) announced the Paing Family Asian Grocery in Akron, OH has been awarded grant funding through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI).

WASHINGTON – Today, the House of Representatives passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), bipartisan legislation that included key wins secured by Representatives Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) and Tim Ryan (OH-13).

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) supported passage in the House of Representatives of H.R. 7910, the Protecting Our Kids Act. The comprehensive legislative package contains commonsense gun safety measures that will reduce gun violence, save lives, and make our communities safer.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) and Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) led a bipartisan group of their Ohio colleagues in sending a letter to President Joe Biden and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra urging them to consider Cleveland as the home for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).

WASHINGTON – Today, in the wake of the hate-fueled mass shooting in Buffalo, NY this past weekend, Rep. Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) voted for the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act to expand federal resources to combat violent extremism and better equip local law enforcement to address these deadly threats.