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Congressman Mike Turner is announcing an Empowering Women Career Fair in conjunction with Montgomery County's Workforce Development Division and the International Women's Ministerial Alliance. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 11th at noon at Sinclair Community College.
Congressman Mike Turner, a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today joined Varney & Co. on the FOX Business Network to discuss the developing IRS scandal, its effects on the 2012 election, and what's being done to ensure this never happens again.
Congressman Mike Turner, a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), submitted the following statement for the record as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on "Organizations Targeted by Internal Revenue Service for Their Personal Beliefs." In his statement, Turner criticizes the Internal Revenue Service after revelations exposed a failure of leadership when agents at the IRS began targeting organizations based their personal beliefs. In the statement, Turner also hopes that leadership from the targeted groups can help expose the tactics taken by the IRS.
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH) are leading a bicameral, bipartisan letter to Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Congressman Darell Issa (R-CA), Chairmen of the Senate and House Oversight Committees respectively, urging them to continue their Committees' examinations of matters pertaining to the unjust termination of Delphi salaried retiree pensions.
Today, U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine.) and U.S. Representatives Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and Niki Tsongas (D-Mass.) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to combat sexual assaults in the military by better holding perpetrators accountable and better protecting survivors. The updated version of the group's legislation includes additional provisions to protect and enhance the rights of victims. The lawmakers are working to include the legislation in this year's National Defense Authorization Act.
By Jeremy Herb
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday called the rise of sexual assaults in the military "a national disgrace" and praised efforts underway in Congress to address the problem.
"It's outrageous, and frankly, it's a national disgrace," Boehner said at a press conference.
Boehner praised the work of House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) and Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) to shine a light on the problem in the Pentagon over the last two years.
By Megan Scully
Roll Call Staff
Lawmakers last year gave the military the benefit of the doubt that its leaders were working hard to stop the epidemic of sexual assault within their ranks, opting for a package of modest changes over far more controversial proposals that had drawn staunch opposition from the Pentagon.
This year is a different story altogether.
The news on military sexual assault has gone from bad to worse to unbelievable over the past two weeks after two sexual-assault-prevention officials were themselves charged with assault. A third was arrested last week in a domestic dispute and relieved of his command.
Congressman Mike Turner, a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, joined FOX Business Network today following a hearing on the IRS targeting taxpayers for their political beliefs.
Congressman Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, has lead 121 of his colleagues in writing to Army Secretary John McHugh in support of funding for the upgrading of the M1A1 Abrams tanks that our National Guard uses. The President's budget has once again failed to adequately fund the program, leaving the responsibility of maintaining this critical capability to Congress.