JD Vance for US Senate

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!

‘I AM ALARMED THAT ONE OF OUR CLOSEST FRIENDS, A DEMOCRACY DEDICATED TO UPHOLDING CHERISHED FREEDOMS, SHOULD UNDERTAKE SUCH LEGISLATION’ (Fox News) – 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.

Read Fox News’ article here.

‘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) -- 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.

‘WE CANNOT STAND IDLY BY AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND DRUG CARTELS PROFIT FROM BREAKING OUR NATION’S LAWS’ (Daily Caller) -- 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.

‘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) – Senator Vance joins Hannity to discuss the ways the Biden Administration is taking right away from voters.

Watch here.

‘MIDDLETOWN HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD TO ME’ (The Journal-News) -- 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.”

Read more at The Journal-News.

‘THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE STELLANTIS THE SUCCESS THAT IT IS’ (The Detroit News) -- 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."

Read all of The Detroit News’ article here.

‘TODAY, A CRITICAL PIECE OF AMERICA’S DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE WAS AUCTIONED OFF TO FOREIGNERS FOR CASH’ (The Hill) -- 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.”

Read The Hill’s full article here.

‘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) -- 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.

Read Reuters’ full article here.

‘IT’S UTTERLY DISGRACEFUL’ (Fox News) – Senator Vance joins Laura Ingraham to discuss why we should stop writing blank checks to Ukraine.

Watch here.

‘IF UNIVERSITIES KEEP PUSHING RACIAL HATRED, EUPHEMISTICALLY CALLED DEI, WE NEED TO LOOK AT THEIR FUNDING’ (Fox News) -- 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."

Read the whole article at Fox News.

‘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) – 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?"