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Congressman Mike Turner is announcing a grant of $355,000 in support of the Fayette County Airport in Washington Court House, Ohio. This grant will fund the construction of a new access road from the public use road to the airport terminal.
"The Fayette County Airport is an important link for commerce in the region. Providing access to this facility is important to the local economy and to the residents of Fayette County," said Turner.
Fayette County Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport, located two nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Washington Court House.
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Turner, who is Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, discussed the furloughs that went into effect Monday for more than 10,000 Department of Defense civilian employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Congressman Mike Turner is announcing a grant of $757,000 to St. Vincent de Paul Social Services, Inc. to help combat veterans' homelessness. St. Vincent de Paul is a nonprofit organization, annually serving over 100,000 people in need. The grant, which comes from the Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Services for Veterans Families program, will serve approximately 254 participant households throughout southwest Ohio. Specifically, households in Dayton and Kettering in Montgomery County, as well as those in Clark, Greene, Preble, Darke, and Miami Counties will benefit from this grant.
Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces released the following statement as the National Air and Space Intelligence Center issued its Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat Report today:
Congressman Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, joined Bloomberg's 'In the Loop' with Betty Liu to talk about NSA leaker Edward Snowden, the crisis in Egypt, and the effects of sequestration furloughs on Department of Defense civilian employees:
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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 call on the Senate and President Obama to come to the table and find a solution to the devastating effects of sequestration. Yesterday, over 14,000 Department of Defense civilian employees were furloughed in Turner's community. Turner, in his floor speech, highlighted the ripple effect on businesses and families in southwest Ohio.
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Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced a decision to delay the implementation of the employer health care mandate until 2015:
Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10), Chairman of the US Delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Parliamentary Assembly, has introduced a bipartisan resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that it is in our national interest to support and enhance Europe's energy security through opening of the Southern Gas Corridor.
Congressman Mike Turner, Co-Chair of the Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus, spoke on the House Floor today in support of bipartisan legislation (H.R. 1864), authored by Rep. Jackie Walorski (IN-2), which provides whistleblower protections for victims of military sexual assault. The legislation also strengthens existing protection laws to clarify that victims of sexual crimes are protected from punishment for reporting sexual assault. Turner is a co-sponsor of the legislation and voted in favor of the House passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which included H.R. 1864 as a provision.