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Chairman Mike Turner (OH-10) of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces wrote today to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and the White House calling for an immediate public release of a water contamination study conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Chairman Mike Turner (OH-10) of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces was able to secure $182 million for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19 NDAA). The President's budget request had called for a phase one of a new building at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), located at WPAFB, to be authorized at $116 million. Chairman Turner was able to secure funding for the full project rather than a phase of it, and in doing so added $66 million to the funding WPAFB would receive for the building.

Chairman Mike Turner (OH-10) of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces released the following statement after the House Armed Services Committee marked up the FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA):

Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) wrote today to the Director of Office of Personnel Management (OPM) stating his strong opposition to OPM's recommendation of cutting benefits for federal workers, over 30,000 of which reside in Congressman Turner's district.

Congressman Turner wrote:

"I am writing in strong opposition to your letter sent on May 4, 2018 to Speaker Paul D. Ryan in which you recommended legislative proposals seeking to cut benefits for federal workers.

Chairman Mike Turner of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, member of the House Intelligence Committee, and Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, released the following statement following the President's decision to withdraw from the Iran Deal:

Chairman Mike Turner (OH-10) and Ranking Member Niki Tsongas (MA-3) [] on Friday to the members of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces (TAL) to seek their feedback on aviation mishaps in advance of a subcommittee hearing/briefing to be scheduled on the issue.

Chairman Turner and Ranking Member Tsongas are increasingly concerned about our military's rising number of aviation mishaps. The TAL Subcommittee has held several hearings during the 115th Congress encouraging the Department of Defense (DoD) to move quickly to eliminate these incidents.

Chairman Mike Turner (OH-10) of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces and Ranking Member Seth Moulton (MA-6) of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations introduced the Sharing Health Information to Ensure Lifesaving Drug Safety, or SHIELDS, Act, H.R. 5591, to close a gap in Department of Defense's (DoD) practice of reporting prescriptions, including regarding opioids.

Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) and Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (MA-3), Co-Chairs of the Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus, introduced the Purposefully Expanding and Reinforcing the Statutes we Insist Support our Troops Against Military Sexual Trauma Act (PERSIST Against MST Act) today to combat sexual assault in the military. This legislation has been included in the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel mark for the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2019.

This bill: