COLUMBUS — Ohio House Democrats said Monday they will introduce an amendment to the governor’s sweeping mid-biennium review that will use surplus taxpayer money to offset budget cuts to schools and local police and fire services.
The state’s new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a bruising struggle, Republicans on Congress’ powerful deficit-fighting “supercommittee” targeted Social Security and government health care spending Tuesday while Democrats pressed for higher tax revenue as part of any deal to reduce red ink by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Genoa Township) won his last election in 2010 by a comfortable 14 percent margin, defeating Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks, a Democrat.
WASHINGTON — Under fire in a nation desperate for jobs, President Barack Obama will soon announce a broad package of tax cuts, construction work and help for the millions of Americans who have been unemployed for months, a White House official said Wednesday. Republicans immediately cast doubt about any such plan, setting up a fresh economic showdown as the presidential campaign intensifies.