U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance
Recent News About U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance
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Vance Legislation Seeks to End Chinese Currency Manipulation, Force Compliance With Financial Law
“If the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t want to play by American rules, they shouldn’t be allowed access to our financial markets.”
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Senator Vance Authors Legislation to Rebuild American Defense Industrial Base
Senator Vance’s legislation would identify the regulatory barriers that reduce America’s industrial capacity and develop a national strategy to remobilize defense production.
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Senator Vance Introduces Bill Banning Sanctuary Cities From Receiving Housing Grants
Senators JD Vance (R-OH) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) introduced the No Community Development Block Grants for Sanctuary Cities Act, which would amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to prevent sanctuary cities from receiving federal housing grants.
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Senator Vance Introduces Bill Mandating Full Report on American and European Aid to Ukraine
Senator JD Vance (R-OH) has introduced the Ukraine Aid Transparency Act of 2024, which would modify reporting requirements in the FY2024 NDAA to ensure an accurate accounting of American and European aid to Ukraine.
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Congress Sends Vance Amendment Banning Federal Mask Mandates by Transportation Department to President’s Desk
Senator JD Vance’s (R-OH) amendment to the Senate minibus appropriations bill, which will prohibit the Department of Transportation from using any federal funds to enforce mask mandates, passed both the House and the Senate and will now go to President Biden’s desk where it will be signed into law.
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Senator Vance Pushes Fed Chairman Powell to Spare Ohio’s Regional Banks From Costly New Bank Regulations
Senator Vance: “I encourage you not to apply a regulation that doesn’t actually solve the underlying problem.”
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NTSB Chair Homendy: Chemical Explosion in East Palestine Didn’t Need to Happen, Experts Were Ignored
Senator Vance: “This town very well may have been poisoned to facilitate the rapid movement of freight”
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Senators Vance & Warnock Advocate for Seniors’ Cardiovascular Care in Letter to U.s. Government Accountability Office
Without health care policy reforms and planning to address this challenge, it’s expected that the increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease coupled with an aging population will result in a sharp rise in healthcare costs and reduction in quality of life for many Americans.”
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Senator Vance Raises Concerns Over Medical Supply Shortages & Warns Against U.S. Dependence on China
The Biden administration inherited these policies and programs. Rather than build on the foundation established by President Trump, this administration has attempted to start from scratch—and failed…
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Senator Vance, Colleagues Call for Locating Space Force’s Testing and Evaluating Command in Ohio
“The future of aviation and space innovation will take place in Ohio.”
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Senator Vance: Europe Must Stand on Its Own Two Feet on Defence
“We ought to view the money Europe hasn’t spent on defence for what it really is: an implied tax on the American people to allow for the security of Europe …
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Enator Vance Delivers a “wake Up Call” to Munich Security Conference
“I think there’s a fundamental issue here that Europe really has to wake up to … You don’t win wars with GDP or euros or dollars. You win wars with weapons, and the West doesn’t make enough weapons.”
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Vance Urges Proactive Approach to Discovering Health Effects of East Palestine Disaster
Mr. Vance wants the government to be proactive about the health risks. He envisions a program in which epidemiologists, toxicologists, cancer researchers and other experts would regularly test residents for abnormal health conditions … He has asked the administration to allocate $5 million to develop such a program, which hasn’t been tried before.
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Senator Vance to Participate in Bipartisan Codel to Munich Security Conference
Senator JD Vance (R-OH) will participate in a bipartisan CODEL to the 2024 Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany.
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Senator Vance Issues Statement on Idling of Cleveland-cliffs’ Weirton, WV Plantsenator Vance Issues Statement on Idling of Cleveland-cliffs’ Weirton, WV Plant
Senator JD Vance (R-OH) issued the following statement regarding today’s announcement that Cleveland-Cliffs will indefinitely idle its Weirton, WV plant. The plant, which produces tinplate steel, employs hundreds of Ohioans. Last week, the International Trade Commission (ITC) reversed the Department of Commerce’s final duties on tin mill products imported from countries engaged in illegal dumping.
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Senators Vance & Brown Call on Biden Administration to Establish Voluntary Disease Registry for East Palestine Residents
“The residents of East Palestine deserve to know how this disaster has impacted their long-term health.”
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Senator Vance Visits East Palestine, Calls on Biden Administration to Fund Long-term Health Screening Program
“The Biden administration continues to refuse to provide the very small amount of funding, money that’s already been appropriated, that could be used tomorrow to do long-term health screening.”
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Senator JD Vance and RSC Chairman Kevin Hern Call for Passage of Clean, Un-offset Israel Aid Package
Senator JD Vance (R-OH) and Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), issued the following joint statement to call for the passage of a clean, un-offset Israel aid package:“For months, Senate leadership has attempted to trade Ukraine aid for a bill that would secure America’s border. If news reports are in any way accurate, that border negotiation is a complete policy failure.
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Senators Vance, Warnock Announce New Bipartisan Legislation to Compensate Iran Hostage Crisis Victims
After waiting for more than four decades the former Iran hostages have only received a fraction—as little as 25%—of their promised payment.
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Senator Vance Questions Former Cfius Coordinator on the Sale of U.s. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel
“The interest of foreign bidders in U.S. Steel is not primarily about greenfielding investment into the United States of America. They’re not expanding steel production domestically, and they’re not necessarily doing it because they have better access to capital. They’re doing it primarily as a sort of tariff arbitrage.”