JD Vance in 2020s senatorial press release

On Civil Rights: Enforce Court decision ending college affirmative action

While the Court took a big step forward in eliminating racial discrimination in admissions, more work remains to be done. In his remarks in the wake of the landmark decision, President Biden proposed "a new standard, where colleges take into account the adversity a student has overcome, including racial discrimination that individuals have faced in their own lives."

We call upon the Biden administration to embrace the Court's holdings: racial discrimination [does not] have any place in schooling. The American people deserve no less than an Executive Branch committed to enforcing the law equally to all people without concern for their race.

On Environment: Too many unfunded Clean Water Act mandates in Ohio cities

[Their letter to the EPA noted that] "there are a number of Ohio communities under federal consent decrees regarding CWA compliance, including Cleveland, Cincinnati, Akron, Toledo and Youngstown. While each of these communities is committed to reaching compliance with the CWA in a timely manner, they are also encumbered by aging infrastructure and constrained financial positions due to a legacy of deindustrialization."