WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress has meatier targets to tackle.
The bill, which faces steep odds, would ban the promotion [...]
Representative Jennifer Garrison, who is running for Ohio Secretary of State in 2010, took a direct shot at her Republican opponent, Sen. Jon Husted, by introducing legislation to restrict state lawmakers’ mileage reimbursements to only trips made between the Ohio Statehouse and their [...]
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The Nashville Convention Center will be the future home of Nashville’s massive medical trade center if Metro lawmakers give it the green light early next year.
The Nashville Medical Trade Center, [...]
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee will enter the debate over the state budget fix on Monday when he testifies before the Senate Finance Committee in support of public construction reform being pushed by Senate Republicans.
Lawmakers continue to debate how to fill the $851 million budget hole. [...]
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: A party both united and divided
The Republican rank and file is largely in sync with GOP lawmakers in their staunch opposition to efforts by President Obama and Democrats to enact major health-care legislation, but a new Washington Post poll also [...]
Senate Democrats will return to Washington Monday to begin a long-awaited floor debate on the health-reform bill they hope to pass before Christmas. But it’s hardly the last battle they’ll be forced to wage on the health-care front.
As tough as the upper-chamber debate promises to be, [...]
Sex offenders are in the legislative crosshairs again.
Rep. Bill Coley, R-West Chester, has introduced a bill that would increase the penalty for sexual imposition committed against children ages 13 to 16. The offense would be a first-degree misdemeanor instead of third-degree.
Coley noted that the penalty for gross [...]
Thomas Friedman fears that our democracy is so broken it will not be able to meet the big challenges of the future. In “Advice From Grandma,” he cites six stubborn realities that are paralyzing America:
Money in politics has become so pervasive that lawmakers have to spend most of their [...]Two central Ohio lawmakers, a House Democrat and a Senate Republican, say they are moving ahead on proposals that would give individual counties more oversight over casinos, or even outright reject them.
After 58 percent of Franklin County residents voted against state Issue 3, which will allow the building [...]
Lawmakers who voted against the House health care bill have received more campaign cash over the years from health insurance companies' political action committees and other industry sources than supporters of the legislation, which narrowly passed 220-215, a study finds.
The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance' [...]
