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WASHINGTON — The $80 billion that President Joe Biden proposes to give Amtrak over eight years in his $2 trillion infrastructure proposal would be a → Read More
When Republicans used a GOP tax bill to kill a provision in the 2010 health-care law requiring most Americans buy health insurance or pay a penalty, → Read More
As President Donald Trump worked his way through a Dayton hospital treating the 14 hospitalized for their injuries in last weekend's mass shooting, the → Read More
The organization Justice Democrats, which supports the Green New Deal and wants to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, hopes Morgan Harper can knock off the four-term congresswoman in the central Ohio district. → Read More
WASHINGTON — In the wake of the mass shooting that killed nine in Dayton on Sunday, U.S. Rep. Mike Turner said Tuesday that he will back → Read More
WASHINGTON — In the wake of mass shootings that killed nine in Dayton this weekend, U.S. Rep. Mike Turner said he will back legislation that → Read More
WASHINGTON — In the wake of mass shootings that killed nine in Dayton this weekend, U.S. Rep. Mike Turner said he will back legislation that → Read More
As nine families mourn the loss of loved ones mowed down by a single gunman in Dayton early Sunday, Gov. Mike DeWine laid out a multi-pronged plan today → Read More
Less than three days after the shooting that killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will "do something," as he plans to reveal a package today dealing with both gun violence and mental health services. But the big question: Will an extraordinarily gun-friendly Ohio legislature pass it? DeWine is widely expected to unveil a long-considered "red-flag" law to remove guns, via court… → Read More
WASHINGTON — Here’s a bar tab you don't ever want: Within 10 years, the federal government will owe foreign and domestic creditors at least $28.5 trillion.That's $28.5 trillion, with a "T." That’s $28,500,000,000,000. Under conservative economic projections.And there’s no sign that anyone in Washington has the will to do anything about it."They don't care about it," said former Ohio Gov. John… → Read More
WASHINGTON — Sen. Sherrod Brown says he’s fed up with corporations that buy back stock for their executives rather than invest those → Read More
WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy said Thursday that 44 surface samples of dust taken from a southern Ohio middle school over Memorial Day weekend detected no radioactivity above naturally occurring levels.In releasing a 16-page report on the results of the testing, the Department of Energy, which for years operated the nearby former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, sought to assure a… → Read More
WASHINGTON — The federal government says concerns about a proposed merger between CVS and Aetna giving CVS pharmacy benefit managers an unfair advantage are outside of the scope of a court challenge to the merger.The judge in the case appears to disagree.During a two-hour hearing Friday on the proposed $69 billion merger between the two health-care giants, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon… → Read More
WASHINGTON — The federal government argues that concerns a proposed merger between CVS and Aetna will give CVS pharmacy benefit managers an → Read More
WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker John Boehner is getting involved in the fight to save the pensions of nearly 1.3 million retirees. Boehner, a → Read More
WASHINGTON — It’s safe to say Sen. Sherrod Brown is no fan of Facebook’s plan to create a digital currency.He’s not particularly fond of Facebook, either.In a hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Tuesday, Brown blasted Facebook’s plan to launch a digital currency, rattling off instance after instance when he said Facebook failed to protect its users and made… → Read More
WASHINGTON — Sens. Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown both got a first-hand view of the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend, and both agree that the situation is dire.But in a microcosm of the debate playing out across America, they part on their conclusions on who bears responsibility for the crisis, and on what should be done now.Both Portman, who visited the new Donna… → Read More
WASHINGTON — A handful of Ohio Republicans disavowed President Donald Trump’s tweet urging four Democratic lawmakers to “go → Read More
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan buddies Joyce Beatty and Steve Stivers are at it again.The duo’s financial literacy bill unanimously passed the House on Tuesday — the latest joint effort for the two founders of the Congressional Civility and Respect Caucus, which aims to encourage lawmakers to disagree more agreeably.The bill would give first-time homebuyers who complete a Department of Housing and… → Read More
WASHINGTON — Ohio Democrats say they are determined to fight for the 2010 health-care law known as Obamacare in the wake of an ongoing court challenge over whether the individual mandate is constitutional.Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rep. Joyce Beatty are concerned about comments made by members of a three-judge panel this week on whether the Affordable Care Act could legally stand without the law’s… → Read More