Senator JD Vance continues to fight for Ohioans. This edition of Hillbilly on the Hill captures Senator Vance’s recent updates!

‘COMBINING ISRAEL AND UKRAINE AID WITH MONEY FOR OPEN BORDERS IS A DISGRACE. IT’S A WAY TO PROVIDE POLITICAL COVER AND MORE MONEY FOR BIDEN’S DISASTROUS POLICIES’ (The Wall Street Journal) 

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‘INSTEAD OF HOLDING UP AID TO ISRAEL FOR ADDITIONAL UKRAINE FUNDING, CONGRESS SHOULD GIVE THE SITUATION IN ISRAEL THE SEPARATE DEBATE AND VOTE THAT IT DESERVES’ (The Hill) -- The horrific terrorist attack against Israel by Hamas, funded and supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, has left over 1,400 Israelis dead, along with at least thirty American citizens.

The United States’ closest ally and strategic partner in the Middle East is well equipped to respond to this escalating war and defend its people, but military support from the U.S. will be necessary in the coming weeks.  

Having failed to force through more Ukraine funding by tying it to disaster relief for Americans, Senate leadership is now using the crisis in Israel as a “Plan B” to get the Biden administration’s funding request across the finish line — this time by as much as $100 billion.   

But the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel are two distinct events that deserve two distinct responses. 

Instead of holding up aid to Israel for additional Ukraine funding, Congress should give the situation in Israel the separate debate and vote that it deserves.

Read Senator Vance and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ Op-Ed piece here. 

‘FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ARE RIGHT TO BE CONCERNED THAT THEY MAY NEVER SEE A RETURN ON LOANS ISSUED TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS’ (Fox News)  -- A Republican senator led every Senate Banking Committee Republican in a letter to the Biden administration about a recent joint directive on illegal immigrants being approved for loans.

The letter from Ohio GOP Senator J.D. Vance is a response to an Oct. 12 directive from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) warning lenders against solely denying lines of credit for mortgages, auto and other loans due to a borrower's immigration status.

Signed by every member of the GOP members of the Senate Banking Committee, the letter to the Attorney General Merrick Garland and CFPB Director Rohit Chopra argues that the joint directive flies in the face of sound lending practices.

"If someone is deported to their home country, how is a bank in Ohio supposed to recoup the loan it was forced to issue?" Vance said. "The federal government should be cracking down on illegal immigration - not encouraging more of it."

Read the entire article here.

‘THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP RECOGNIZES THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FACILITY’ (Springfield News-Sun)  -- Republican U.S. Sen. JD Vance said the work done at the Ohio Air National Guard 178th Wing base at the Springfield-Beckley Airport is important to maintaining national security and carrying out intelligence missions during a visit there Friday.

The Ohio senator said that he learned about the base’s mission — to support federal and state missions through attacks, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance while being involved in the local community — and the impact that it has on safety, the economy and more.

“I learned a lot today about the role that these guys have in America’s national security sand assessing national intelligence, and really keeping us safe all over the world, so I’m proud to have them here,” Vance said. “I’m proud of what they do, and most of all I’m just grateful for them for the mission they do.”

Read the entire Springfield News-Sun article here. ‘WE SAW COUNTLESS ABUSES OF AUTHORITY THROUGHOUT THE COVID PANDEMIC, AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE JUSTIFIABLY ENRAGED BY UNSCIENTIFIC MASK MANDATES’ (Cleveland.com) --  The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a proposal introduced by Ohio’s JD Vance that would block the Department of Transportation from using any federal money to enforce mask mandates in response to COVID-19 through the current fiscal year.

“The era of mask mandates caused a lot of problems,” said Vance. “It caused problems for our kids and caused developmental delays for school children. It caused a lot of rancor and a lot of division within our common American family. If people want to wear masks, of course, they should be able to. But if people don’t want to wear masks on airplanes, on transit, they should have that option as well. And that’s all that my amendment does.”

After the vote, Vance released a statement that called the amendment’s passage “a massive victory for personal freedom in this country.”

“We saw countless abuses of authority throughout the COVID pandemic, and the American people were justifiably enraged by unscientific mask mandates,” Vance continued. “Today, the United States Senate took an emphatic step toward common sense and individual liberty.”

Read Cleveland.com’s entire article here. 

‘TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DAYS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE DISASTROUS TRAIN DERAILMENT, YET CONGRESS HAS STILL NOT PASSED COMMONSENSE RAILWAY SAFETY LEGISLATION’ (Times Leader) -- It’s been nine months since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine and eight months since U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, along with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, introduced the bipartisan Railway Safety Act of 2023. On Thursday, Vance voiced both frustration and exasperation that the legislation meant to strengthen rail safety and prevent another disaster like East Palestine has stalled.

“Two hundred and fifty days have passed since the disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Yet Congress has still not passed commonsense railway safety legislation to prevent something like this from happening again,” said Vance. “Enough is enough – it’s time for the Senate to pass the Railway Safety Act.”

Read the entire Times Leader article here. 

‘GREAT TO VISIT THE AUTO WORKERS STRIKING IN TOLEDO… THEY’RE IN HIGH SPIRITS AND HAVE A SIMPLE MESSAGE: GOOD WAGES FOR AN HONEST DAY’S WORK’ (WDTN)-- Senator JD Vance met with striking United Auto Workers in Toledo on Friday.

Sen. Vance visited the Toledo Assembly Complex on the morning of Oct. 6, where workers are taking part in the UAW strike happening across the country. Vance talked with workers and showed support for their cause.

“Great to visit the auto workers striking in Toledo this morning,” Vance said in a release. “They’re in high spirits and have a simple message: good wages for an honest day’s work. I’m proud to support them.”

Read WDTN’s article here. 

‘THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY HAS FALLEN VICTIM TO OFFSHORING AND STAGNATING PRODUCTIVITY’ (Newsweek)  -- Seventy years ago, the CEO of General Motors could say that "what's good for General Motors is good for America." The auto industry was booming, building upon its wartime expansion as the "arsenal of democracy." Workers shared in the industry's prosperity. A job in the American auto industry delivered an income that could comfortably support a family, and autoworkers found peace of mind in working toward a secure retirement.

But the same cannot be said today. The U.S. auto industry has fallen victim to offshoring and stagnating productivity. While some sectors—particularly tech and finance—have done well, wages in other industries have stagnated. And it's become nearly impossible to raise a middle-class family on a single income.

The Biden administration would rather shutter every combustion engine facility in Ohio than admit their EV pipedream is crushing our auto industry. Autoworkers in Cleveland, Defiance, Sharonville, Anna, Lima, Toledo and across the Midwest will be left in the breach—casualties of the far Left's religious zeal for electric vehicles.

Ohioans have too much to lose. Our state builds more internal combustion engines than any other in our union. Now is the time to reject Joe Biden's disastrous obsession with electric vehicles and rescue the American auto industry.

Read Senator Vance’s entire Op-Ed piece here.

‘THE LAST THING THE STATE DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE DOING IS WASTING ITS TIME AND YOUR TAX DOLLARS PUSHING FAR-LEFT GENDER IDEOLOGY’ (The Daily Signal) -- FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Sen. J.D. Vance is introducing legislation requiring a person’s actual, biological gender on their United States passports.

The Ohio Republican’s Passport Sanity Act would require the secretary of state to ensure that all applications for passports, passport cards, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad documentation include only the gender designations of male and female, prohibiting any passport documentation that includes the unspecified X gender designation.

“The last thing the State Department should be doing is wasting its time and your tax dollars pushing far-left gender ideology,” Vance told The Daily Signal. “There are only two genders—passports issued by the United States government should recognize that simple fact. I am proud to introduce this bill to restore some sanity in our federal bureaucracy.”

Read The Daily Signal’s entire article here. 

‘WHAT BIDEN IS DOING IS DISGUSTING’ (Breitbart) -- Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and others ripped President Joe Biden for using Hamas’s terrorist attack in Israel as a way to try and leverage aid for Ukraine. Vance emphasized that they are separate countries and issues.

“What Biden is doing is disgusting. He’s using dead children in Israel to sell his disastrous Ukraine policy to skeptical Americans,” Vance wrote in a post on X.

“They are not the same countries, they are not the same problems, and this effort to use Israel for political cover is offensive,” he added. “Hell no.”

Read Breitbart’s entire article here.

‘MY EDUCATION POLICY IS THAT WE SHOULD STOP FUNDING INSTITUTIONS THAT TEACH AMERICAN KIDS TO SUPPORT TERRORIST KILLERS’ (Breitbart) -- In the wake of anti-Israel rallies across the United States, particularly on college campuses, following terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is joining other Republicans in condemning the nation’s mass immigration policy that has brought terrorist sympathizers to the United States.

After the attacks on Israel, pro-Hamas rallies broke out across many major American cities and college campuses with protesters in New York City chanting “From the river to the sea!” At least one counterterrorism expert has said that the phrase calls for the extermination of Israel.

Vance, in a Twitter post on Tuesday, wrote that his “education policy is that we should stop funding institutions that teach American kids to support terrorist killers” and that his “immigration policy is that we should stop importing people who already believe those things.”

Read Breitbart’s entire article here. 

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