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Senator Vance closed out strong his first year as Ohio’s newest Senator!
Senator Vance is committed to his diligent work for the People of Ohio in 2024.
Thank you for all of your support in 2023 – Here’s to a great New Year!


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‘I AM ALARMED THAT ONE OF OUR CLOSEST FRIENDS, A DEMOCRACY DEDICATED TO
UPHOLDING CHERISHED FREEDOMS, SHOULD UNDERTAKE SUCH LEGISLATION’ (Fox News
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) – U.S. Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, raised questions for lawmakers in Ireland, who
are proposing a bill that could jail citizens for merely possessing material
that criticizes certain protected characteristics, like gender or national
origin.


Ireland Sen. Pauline O’Reilly spoke to the Seanad Éireann, where she claimed
the law protects people from "discomfort" associated with views about their
identities.


Vance said the U.S. condemns similar "censorious conduct" from China, Myanmar
or Iran, explaining the U.S. imposed visa restrictions on government officials
from the latter because they were believed to have been censoring "peaceful
protesters" and "inhibiting their rights to freedom of expression" and peaceful
assembly.


"I am alarmed that one of our closest friends, a democracy dedicated to
upholding cherished freedoms, should undertake such legislation," Vance wrote.

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‘IRELAND SENATOR WANTS TO CRIMINALIZE SPEECH THAT CAUSES TOO MUCH ‘DISCOMFORT’
– IF THIS WERE HAPPENING IN RUSSIA OR CHINA OR MANY OTHER NATIONS WE WOULD CALL
IT TOTALITARIAN AND THREATEN ECONOMIC SANCTIONS’ (The Daily Signal
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) -- FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance sent a letter
Tuesday to Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason expressing strong concerns
about legislation that would undermine Irish citizens’ freedom of speech.


Vance’s letter, first obtained by The Daily Signal, references the Criminal
Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022, which
is supported by Irish politicians such as Sen. Pauline O’Reilly, who is in the
country’s Green Party.


“We are restricting freedom but we’re doing it for the common good,” O’Reilly
said in viral remarks earlier this year as she discussed the legislation. “Yes,
you have rights, but they are restricted for the common good.”

The Ohio Republican warns that this Irish bill is “full of vague prohibitions
that would chill important public debate if they were to become law,
particularly with respect to the most controversial and publicly significant
matters.”


Read The Daily Signal’s full article here.
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‘WE CANNOT STAND IDLY BY AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND DRUG CARTELS PROFIT FROM
BREAKING OUR NATION’S LAWS’(Daily Caller
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) -- Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance and Oklahoma Republican Rep. Kevin Hern
will introduce legislation Thursday that would tax the cartels’ international
money transfers.


The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the bill, which is titled the
Withholding Illegal Revenue Entering Drug Markets (WIRED) Act. The legislation
would specifically impose a 10 percent fee on remittances out of the U.S., with
the plan of penalizing illegal activity, like drug and human smuggling.


“We cannot stand idly by as illegal immigrants and drug cartels profit from
breaking our nation’s laws,” Vance told the Caller before introducing the bill.
“This legislation is a commonsense solution to disincentivize illegal
immigration and reduce the cartels’ financial power.”


Read the Daily Caller’s full article here.
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‘THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT DONALD TRUMP, THIS IS ABOUT MILLIONS OF AMERICAN
VOTERS WHO ARE BEING TOLD BY JUDGES IN COLORADO ‘YOU DON’T GET TO VOTE FOR THE
CANDIDATE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOTE FOR’ HOW IS THIS DEMOCRACY?’(Fox News
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‘MIDDLETOWN HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD TO ME’ (The Journal-News
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) -- U.S. Sen. James David “JD” Vance, a Middletown native, has said all his
successes began at home.

“Middletown has always been good to me,” he once said.

Now Vance has opened an office in his hometown, his fourth office in Ohio, the
Journal-News has learned. The others are located in Columbus, Toledo, and
Cleveland.

“Middletown means so much to me and my family – our new office here will work
to ensure Southwest Ohio receives the services it deserves,” Vance told the
Journal-News. “We are here to help.”

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‘THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE STELLANTIS THE SUCCESS THAT IT IS’ (The Detroit
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) -- U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio is demanding answers around Stellantis NV's
decision to cut as many as 1,225 jobs at its Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator plant
in Toledo, Ohio.

The automaker on Thursday said it was moving the plant — currently on a
two-shift alternative schedule that allows full-time workers to choose how many
hours they want to work each week — to a traditional two-shift operation in
February. The move was made in an agreement as part of negotiations with the
United Auto Workers.

It also temporarily was cutting the third shift at Detroit's Mack Assembly
Plant, one of the plants building the Jeep Grand Cherokee. A Worker Adjustment
and Retraining Notification for that site suggests 2,455 jobs could be lost
there, though Stellantis says the final number could be much lower.

"They are decent, hardworking people," Vance wrote of the autoworkers he met.
"I hear their stores of frustration and financial hardship — of parents who
couldn't afford soccer cleats for their kids and linemen who couldn't replace
their broken-down cars. These are the people who make Stellantis the success
that it is. Though they had reason to be angry with you and your management
team, I did not hear vitriol directed at you. Instead, I heard a just desire to
share in your success and get a fair shake."

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‘TODAY, A CRITICAL PIECE OF AMERICA’S DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE WAS AUCTIONED
OFF TO FOREIGNERS FOR CASH’(The Hill
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) -- Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said Monday that he opposes the sale of
American-based manufacturing company U.S. Steel Corp. to Japanese steelmaker
Nippon Steel.

“Today, a critical piece of America’s defense industrial base was auctioned
off to foreigners for cash,” Vance said in a statement, adding that he had
“warned of this outcome months ago.”

“U.S. Steel announced the sale by celebrating the ‘certain and immediate
value’ to be delivered to its shareholders,” Vance continued. “But rest assured
that I will interrogate the long-term implications for the American people, and
I will do everything in my power to protect the future of our nation’s
security, industry, and workers.”

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‘DESPITE THE ABSENCE OF ANY SECURITY-FOCUSED DELIBERATION ON U.S. STEEL’S
PART, DOMESTIC STEEL PRODUCTION IS VITAL TO U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY’(Reuters
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) -- Three U.S. Republican senators on Tuesday urged Treasury Secretary Janet
Yellen to block the $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan's Nippon
Steel, the world's fourth largest steelmaker, citing national security concerns.

"Despite the absence of any security-focused deliberation on U.S. Steel's
part, domestic steel production is vital to U.S. national security," according
to the letter on Tuesday from Republican Senators JD Vance, Josh Hawley and
Marco Rubio.

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‘IF UNIVERSITIES KEEP PUSHING RACIAL HATRED, EUPHEMISTICALLY CALLED DEI, WE
NEED TO LOOK AT THEIR FUNDING’(Fox News
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) -- Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) published to social media an open letter to the
incoming president of Ohio State University, urging the new administrator to
abandon "diversity, equity and inclusion" mandates.

Vance, an alum of Ohio State, accused the school of using racial justice
rhetoric to mask "racial hatred" in its hiring of personnel and curricula.

"Today I wrote to the leadership of Ohio State, a university I love, to ask
about the troubling rise of racial prejudice on campus," Vance said of the
letter on social media. "If universities keep pushing racial hatred,
euphemistically called DEI, we need to look at their funding."

"I write to express frustration with the culture at my alma mater, The Ohio
State University, and to understand how that culture might change once you
become its president," the senator's letter reads. "In particular, I am
concerned about recent news reports that considerations related to 'diversity
equity, and inclusion' have been infused into the university's hiring practices
and curricula."

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‘HOW DOES THE DOJ DISTINGUISH BETWEEN HEATED POLITICAL RHETORIC AND EVIDENCE
OF A CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE RIGHTS OR REBEL AGAINST THE UNITED STATES’(Fox News
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) – FIRST ON FOX: Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, sent a letter Wednesday to Attorney
General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding answers
regarding a recent Washington Post op-ed that he said suggested "open
rebellion" against the United States.

Robert Kagan, an editor at large at the newspaper, wrote a piece last week,
claiming that "resistance" to former President Donald Trump, should he win the
2024 presidential election, "could come from the governors of predominantly
Democratic states such as California and New York through a form of
nullification. States with Democratic governors and statehouses could refuse to
recognize the authority of a tyrannical federal government."

Vance wrote in his letter to Garland and Blinken that Kagan’s piece
potentially violates federal law.

"Excuse me? I must have missed that day in civics class," he wrote after
quoting Kagan’s piece. "According to Robert Kagan, the prospect of a second
Donald Trump presidency is terrible enough to justify open rebellion against
the United States, along with the political violence that would inevitably
follow."

"How does the Department of Justice distinguish between heated political
rhetoric and evidence of a conspiracy to violate rights or rebel against the
United States?" he asked. "In the view of the Department of Justice, could a
demand for ‘nullification’ or secession ‘intimidate’ a voter into changing his
behavior at the ballot box?"

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‘THERE SHOULD BE NO TOLERANCE FOR VANDALIZATION OF OUR HISTORIC WORKS OF ART’(
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) -- FIRST ON FOX: Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, wants to raise the stakes for climate
change activists who vandalize historical artworks or damage museum property by
creating harsher penalties for the crime.

The Consequences for Climate Vandals Act, introduced in the Senate on
Wednesday, would also apply to the grounds or property of the National Gallery
of Art, the Smithsonian museums and the Kennedy Center, among others, and raise
the maximum prison time from five years to 10.

The consequences would mirror the current maximum prison time in England,
where climate activists have frequently glued themselves to artworks or thrown
soup or other liquids on protective casings of museum pieces.

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‘THE SENATORS’ LETTER BLAMES THE STEEL INFLUX FOR AT LEAST ONE PLANT CLOSURE,
THE LOSS OF OVER A THOUSAND JOBS, AND THE DEFERMENT OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS IN NEW INVESTMENT’(Cleveland.com
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) -- Both Ohio’s U.S. Senators want the Biden administration to stop a surge in
steel imports from Mexico that violates a 2019 agreement between the United
States and Mexico, and that they say threatens the U.S manufacturing base and
national security.

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators including Cleveland Democrat Sherrod Brown
and Cincinnati Republican JD Vance are sending a Wednesday letter to National
Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that blames the steel influx from Mexico for at
least one plant closure, the loss of over a thousand new and existing jobs, and
the deferment of hundreds of millions of dollars in new investment.

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