Senator JD Vance’s August was a busy one! See all what the Hillbilly on the Hill has been up to across Ohio and in Washington. Thanks!

‘HE’S A SENATOR WHO WILL PUT OHIO FIRST – SOMETHING HIS OPPONENTS QUESTIONED THROUGHOUT THE 2022 CAMPAIGN’ (The Cincinnati Enquirer)-- Eight months into his first term, the freshman Republican senator is reaching across the aisle to get things done. But he's still not afraid to make people mad.

That’s the Vance Ohio voters came to know on the campaign trail, the one at the core of his first months as a senator: Someone unafraid to wade into the muck and speak his mind, even if it grates his critics or members of his own party.

At the same time, he’s made strange bedfellows with colleagues across the aisle to tackle manufacturing issues and crack down on bank executives. Vance doesn’t idealize bipartisanship, and that's not really his goal. The Iraq War, he likes to point out, was bipartisan and considered by many to be a massive failure.

But the junior senator and "Hillbilly Elegy" author is interested in getting things done.

Read the entire Enquirer article here.

‘OVER 100 DAYS AGO, JOE BIDEN PROMISED HE WOULD VISIT EAST PALESTINE. HE HAS BROKEN THAT PROMISE’(Fox News) – Senator Vance joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity to discuss Joe Biden’s abandonment of East Palestine.

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‘CONFOUNDING EXPECTATIONS IS TURNING INTO SOMETHING OF A HABIT FOR VANCE’ (Washington Examiner) -- Eight months after winning Ohio’s U.S. Senate seat over Democrat Tim Ryan and a year after winning one of the wildest, smash-mouth primary races in the Buckeye State’s history, with both races having former President Donald Trump’s hands all over them, Vance is not the fire-breather the press predicted he would be. Neither, of course, is he his mild and wonkish predecessor, former Sen. Rob Portman.

Vance is just fine not fitting in any of those molds…

Vance is still a conservative populist, still a hardcore Trump supporter. But he has also introduced legislation with Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ).

Vance smiles at the notion of not fitting into someone else’s caricature of him.

Read the entire Washington Examiner piece here.

‘NOT ONLY HAS JOE BIDEN REFUSED TO VISIT EAST PALESTINE, BUT HE HAS ALSO REFUSED TO GRANT CRITICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE RECOVERY EFFORT’ (The Columbus Dispatch) -- Senator Vance penned an Op-ed calling on the Biden Administration to provide help to the residents of East Palestine.

Read Senator Vance’s piece here.

‘THE PATHS OF DEALMAKER AND CULTURE WARRIOR SO FAR HAVE BEEN MORE OF AN INTERSECTION THAN A CROSSROADS FOR VANCE’ (Cleveland.com) -- On the campaign trail, Vance fashioned himself as the sort of conservative fighter that supporters of former President Donald Trump had come to embrace as the new face of the Republican Party. That brand of politics would seem to put Vance at odds with his colleagues across the aisle…

[But] Vance has kicked off his Senate career by reaching across the aisle to work with Democrats on several bills. He teamed up with a bipartisan group including Cleveland’s Sherrod Brown on a bill aimed at improving rail safety in the wake of a catastrophic derailment in East Palestine. He joined a group led by Massachusetts’ Elizabeth Warren on legislation that would claw back the salaries of rogue financial institution executives in the wake of high profile bank collapses at Silicon Valley and Signature banks.

At the same time, he’s embraced divisive culture war issues and been a vocal backer of Trump’s bid to return to office. Vance calls criminal indictments of Trump “a complete sham,” and maintains President Joe Biden is using the Department of Justice to “go after his political rivals.” Vance put a hold on Senate approval of all Justice Department nominees to protest what he calls Trump’s “unprecedented political prosecution” as well as the nation’s “two-tiered justice system.”

Read the entire Cleveland.com article here.

‘OHIO IS LEADING THE WAY TO A BRIGHTER FUTURE BY TAPPING THE UTICA SHALE, AND I WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING FOR OUR ENERGY INDUSTRY TO RECEIVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE IT NEEDS TO FUEL OUR ECONOMY’(The Marietta Times) -- Senator Vance penned an Op-ed in support of Ohio tapping the Utica Shale.

“In a time of grinding inflation, increasing energy costs and continuing global instability, we Ohioans are lucky to live on top of the Utica Shale oil and gas basin.

“Stretching across Appalachian Ohio and into our neighboring states, the Utica Shale is a vast, underground reserve of energy containing an estimated 38 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, 940 million barrels of oil and 208 million barrels of natural gas liquids.”

Read Senator Vance’s entire piece here.

‘THE MEN AND WOMEN TASKED WITH MAINTAINING FEDERAL DATABASES OR MANAGING OUR SATELLITES SHOULD BE CITIZENS OR PERMANENT RESIDENTS WITH SOME STAKE IN THE FUTURE OF OUR NATION’ (Breitbart) -- Sen. J.D. Vance is pressing the Department of Justice (DOJ) for information regarding its lawsuit against SpaceX — which claims Elon Musk’s rocket company “failed to fairly consider or hire asylees and refugees” — probing Attorney General Merrick Garland on whether the action is politically motivated.

Read the entire Breitbart article here.

‘FOR THOUSANDS OF SMALL BUSINESSES, THE IRS HASN’T ONLY FAILED TO CHANGE ITS WAYS, IT’S GOTTEN WORSE’ (The Wall Street Journal) -- Senator Vance penned an Op-ed in The Wall Street Journal calling out the IRS for remaining dysfunctional despite $80B in new funding and 87,000 new agents.

Read Senator Vance’s piece here.

‘IT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE TO ALLOW A FOREIGN COMPANY TO BUY US STEEL’ (Fox Business) -- Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance is calling on a storied American steel company to reject foreign entity buyout offers to protect their shareholders and the country.

Vance sent a letter to U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt and board Chairman David Sutherland expressing his "interest in the formal review of strategic alternatives" of the steel giant's buyout prospects.

"The recent announcement signaled a turning point not only for the iconic American company but for an industry of strategic national importance," Vance wrote.

Read the entire Fox Business article here.

‘IT WOULD GREATLY BENEFIT OHIOANS AND ALL AMERICANS IF OUR GOVERNMENT COULD BE COUNTED ON TO DEFEND OUR FOUNDING FATHERS, INSTEAD OF CAPITULATING TO POLITICALLY MOTIVATED RENAMING EFFORTS’ (WKBN) -- The USDA Forest Service wants to change the name of Wayne National Forest in southeastern Ohio.

Senator JD Vance, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Randy Moore, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, opposing the name change.

Vance said the name change “denigrates Ohio history and represents a lack of fidelity to our nation’s founding generation.”

Read the entire WKBN article here.

‘TO MY SURPRISE, NONE OF THE SCHOOLS THAT RECEIEVED MY LETTER RESPONDED IN GOOD FAITH’ (Townhall) -- In case any colleges and universities were looking to violate the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings from June that ended affirmative action, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) not long after sent a letter to multiple elite schools putting them on notice. Vance has now sent another one assuring compliance, this time to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ).

"To my surprise, none of the schools that received my letter on July 6 responded to these queries in good faith. Instead, each school responded with generalized and dismissive statements. Reading through the responsive letters, I was struck by their uncanny similarity, both in substance and structure," he wrote with original emphasis, with may suggest collusion already occurring.

Read the entire Townhall article here.

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