Ohio -- As Washington mourns the loss of President George H. W. Bush, several Ohio lawmakers will take part in crucial meetings on Wednesday with the CEO of General Motors.

Eight days after GM announced it will close the Lordstown, Ohio plant, and four others, next year, Senator Sherrod Brown is preparing to meet with CEO Mary Barra when she visits Capitol Hill.

“Do you have any indication going into the meeting that [GM is] actually considering staying [in Lordstown]?” Spectrum Washington reporter Taylor Popielarz asked Brown on Tuesday.

“Um, I will not give up,” Brown (D-OH) said. “I don’t know what the CEO of GM and what the board are thinking.”

Brown and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) will meet with Barra together in Portman’s office on Wednesday afternoon.

The Ohio Republican said in a statement, “I hope the company sees the incredible potential in this plant, by keeping it open and bringing other production back to the Valley.”

For his part, Brown said GM has a choice to step away from a proven United States plant to do business elsewhere, or reinvest in American workers.

“That plant’s been retooled a number of times,” Brown said. “It’s rated as the most efficient GM assembly plant, I believe in all of — in the U.S. for sure, but all of North America. And they can make money in that plant.”

When it opened in 1966, GM called the Lordstown plant “the most automated automotive plant in the world.”

But now the company says it has to step away to ‘accelerate transformation.’

Brown is hoping President Trump will follow through on supporting his American Cars, American Jobs Act.

“I sent the bill to the U.S. Trade Representative, Bob Lighthizer,” Brown said. “A friend of mine in the administration who works on trade issues sent the bill to him the night the president said he was for it. We expect help, and we’re going to keep pushing it.”

Congressman Tim Ryan, whose 13th congressional district includes the Lordstown plant, also announced he will be meeting with Barra on Wednesday.

He said in a statement, “It’s my hope that Mary Barra and I can find a path forward, bring a new product to the Lordstown plant, and keep these jobs in the Mahoning Valley.”