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WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) issued the following statement following reports of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade:

WASHINGTON – Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Rep. Shontel M. Brown (OH-11), along with Reps. Joyce Beatty (OH-03), Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Troy Balderson (OH-12), Tim Ryan (OH-13), Dave Joyce (OH-14), Mike Carey (OH-15) and Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16), introduced bipartisan legislation to designate the Kol Israel Foundation Holocaust Memorial in Bedford Heights, Ohio, as a national memorial.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) announced that Ohio will receive $214 million to reduce carbon pollution across the state and ease congestion in local communities. The federal funding is being provided to the state through the new Carbon Reduction Program, an initiative established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.  

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) released the following statement after the United States Senate voted to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court:

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) supported House passage of the Relief for Restaurants & Other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act, a bill to provide relief to restaurants, food and beverage businesses, and other small businesses hit hard by the pandemic. 

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) joined Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Representatives Tim Ryan (OH-13), Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Joyce Beatty (OH-02) in sending a letter to the U.S. Departments of State, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, notifying them of Ohio’s readiness to accept Ukrainian refugees fleeing Vladimir Putin’s brutal attack on their country.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) announced Ohio will receive $259 million this year from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to upgrade and expand local transit.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) voted for The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, comprehensive legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and address the injustices the criminalization of marijuana has had on communities of color.