Press Releases

Congressman Mike Turner, Co-Chair of the Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus, released the following statement upon being briefed by the Defense Department on their Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military:

Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) has lead the Ohio Congressional Delegation in a letter of support for the selection of the Ohio/Indiana Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Center & Test Complex to be selected as one of the six UAS Test Sites required by the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-95). The selection of Ohio and Indiana as a UAS Test Site would be a boost to research endeavors in the region as well as local economies.

Congressman Mike Turner and 15 other House Armed Services Committee members wrote to Congressman Bill Young, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, to urge him to include funding in the FY2014 Defense Appropriations Mark for the East Coast missile defense site. The lawmakers requested that funding be at least $250.0 million for expenses related to site design, missile complex development and installation of hardware and software, and GBI procurement for the site. These funds are based on budget recommendations from the Missile Defense Agency's presentation of March 5, 2012. The lawmakers vowed to take similar action in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014.

Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10), today on the House Floor highlighted his Expedited LNG for American Allies Act. The bill, which is the House companion to bipartisan legislation introduced by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), seeks to help strengthen our strategic partnerships with key allies, reduce the trade deficit and boost job growth right here at home by streamlining the regulatory process to export natural gas to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries, Japan and others.

Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) has introduced the Prohibiting Taxpayer-Funded Monuments to Members of Congress Act. This legislation expands the prohibition Turner authored in the FY12 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to put an end to the senseless waste of taxpayer dollars for pet projects bearing the name of a Member of Congress. Turner's provision, which passed the House with strong bipartisan support, applied only to buildings and infrastructure controlled by the Department of Defense.

Congressman Mike Turner, a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), submitted the following statement for the record as the Committee held a hearing on "Broken Promises: the Small Business Lending Fund's Backdoor Bank Bailout." In his statement Turner, criticizes the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF), which was created by the Democrat-controlled House as part of the so-called "Small Business Jobs Act of 2010." The intent of the fund was to increase "the availability of credit to small businesses." However, the resulting program was simply a slush fund for bailed-out banks to use in avoiding repayment of their debts to the taxpayer.

Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces took to the House Floor today to criticize the Administration's failure to articulate a consistent missile defense strategy. The Obama Administration last month announced that it would be abandoning its failed Phased Adaptive Approach and place ground-based interceptors at missile silos in Alaska and California. Turner for years has been advocating for the placement of missiles in those silos to counter the threat of a missile attack on the homeland. Turner had offered an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act which would have accomplished this.

Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, wrote to President Barack Obama criticizing his Administration's failure to articulate a consistent missile defense strategy. The letter comes as Secretary of State John Kerry flew to China and offered to remove our recently added defenses in the Pacific to encourage them to counter the increasingly belligerent tone and actions by North Korea. This is the same failed strategy that the Administration offered to the Russians in exchange for reining in Iran.