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Today Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) led several of his Ohio colleagues in requesting the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide guidance to the defense industrial base, specifically those supporting the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We are urging that clear mandates be directed to contracting officers until such time as this emergency has passed," wrote Turner and his colleagues. They urged DoD to do the following:

Today, Rep. Mike Turner (OH-10) joined Ohio Senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown in leading a letter from the Ohio congressional delegation urging the President to swiftly approve Ohio's major disaster declaration. This request will open a new funding resource through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to financially assist Ohio's COVID-19 response.

Today, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) released the following statement upon its passage:

"As a cosponsor of this bill, I am committed to recognizing lynchings for what they are: hate crimes. Today's long overdue House passage of this bill makes lynching a hate crime act within federal statute. Just last year an outside Klu Klux Klan group came to Dayton, Ohio, to rally. We came together as a community to rise above their hate. As a country we must acknowledge the deeply hateful past of lynchings, and today's bill is a step forward in doing so."

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Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, released the following statement after the White House released its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21):

Today, Representative Mike Turner (OH-10), led Ohio Senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown along with Representatives Steve Chabot (OH-01), Warren Davidson (OH-08), Marcia Fudge (OH-11), Bill Johnson (OH-06), David Joyce (OH-14), Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Robert Latta (OH-05) and Brad Wenstrup (OH-02) in sending a letter to the NCAA, in support of the University of Dayton hosting the First Four in the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

Today Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH-10), Vice President of NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA), and Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA-1), the Head of the US Delegation to NATO PA, released the following statement after the United Kingdom announced it would allow Chinese company Huawei to assist in building the UK's 5G data network:

Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10), a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote today to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray and United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer urging the FBI to adopt his proposed reform of preventing politically funded opposition research from being used as evidence in the FISC.

Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) released the following statement after successfully advocating for a year long extension of the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) program to be included in the appropriations packages passed in the House yesterday: