If the Ohio Senate fails to act on House Bill 318 by December 31, Ohio's constitution will require Governor Ted Strickland’s staff to begin cutting state aid to local school districts by $50 million per month, the largest education cutback in state history. Learn more and take [...]
A former Senate staffer for Ohio's Sherrod Brown and the late Senator Edward Kennedy was charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Senate of excess of $75,000 in pay and bonuses.
Authorities charge that Ngozi Pole, a former office manager for Brown and Kennedy, filled out paperwork to improperly boost his [...]
As we heard yesterday, thanks to the Ohio House Democrats refusing to accept the bipartisan Senate compromise, Gov. Strickland may call the legislature into session on Christmas Day.Speaking to reporters after meeting with Senate Democrats this afternoon, President Obama said he is "cautiously optimistic" about health care reform's chances for passage.
"I am absolutely confident that if the American people know what's in this bill and the Senate knows what's in this bill, it will pass, [...]
Scheduled for today, the Senate will debate for the first time in American history a proposal to create a single-payer, Medicare-for-all health care system. "In my view, the single-payer approach is the only way we will ever have a cost-effective, comprehensive health care system in this country," said Sen. [...]
Greg over at the Plum Line has the best description that I've seen of the sides that are being taken over the current state of the Health Reform legislation:
There’s a debate raging in the blogosphere about whether the Senate bill has been so watered down that it’s time to' [...]
This in via e-mail from the office of Governor Ted Strickland:
Ohio Education Budget Shortfall and the Consequences of Inaction
Ohio GOP Senators Claim they can Delay Resolving Education Funding Shortfall Until Next Year.
Senate Republicans don’t see Jan. 1 as such a key date…Sen. Mark Wagoner, a Toledo-area Republican, said the [...]
It seems that some Senate Republicans are threatening to take this budget fight nuclear, by forcing a delay into next year. If they did this, the suggested tax freeze would then officially become a tax raise.
From the Dispatch:
"The world does not end Dec. 31 if we don't' [...]
While there have been numerous endorsement announcements from the Fisher for Senate campaign, little has been made about the ones received by Jennifer Brunner. For instance, the endorsement of Cuyahoga County State Rep. Mike Foley. Foley, who represents one of the county's most progressive districts, threw his support behind Brunner [...]
Vice President Joe Biden says he's confident Sen. Joe Lieberman will come around, but says everyone is engaging in "gamesmanship" to get the maximum leverage from the bill.
Today Biden appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," defending his old Senate colleague as "a great guy."
But Biden said "honest to god" [...]
This in via e-mail from Representative Matt Szollosi:
Rep. Szollosi Warns of Cuts to Area Schools if Senate Refuses to Act
Failure to Balance State Budget Would Drastically Reduce School Dollars
TOLEDO – Ohio House Speaker Pro Tempore Matthew A. Szollosi today warned that failure to close the budget hole before the end [...]
Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio, hopes this week to attend the climate change conference in Copenhagen. Aides to the Ohio senator say he would only be able to attend the conference in Denmark, however, if the Senate schedule gives him enough time to leave Washington.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced the Senate passage of $27,434,900 in funds that will invest in critical programs and services across Ohio. The funds were included in the Fiscal 2010 Omnibus Appropriations Act, which combined several individual appropriations bills that had yet to be fully [...] There was a great editorial published on the Plain Dealer’s website yesterday summing up the budget situation.
The only surprise about the latest budget antics from the Ohio Senate's Republicans is how obvious they are. Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, who rates so-so in polls, is expected to seek re-election. [...]
In his weekly address, President Obama applauded the House for passing financial reform legislation and called on the Senate to continue working toward meaningful reform that stands up for consumers, sets clear rules of the road for businesses and investors and restores a sense of responsibility and accountability to both [...]
Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (NV)
Remember when Harry Reid declared, “This War Is Lost” and the surge was eventually successful in Iraq? Well, Mr. Reid has topped his idiocy in fine fashion as FoxNews.com reported on his latest utterance in the debate over ObamaCare.
Reid argued that Republicans [...]
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically' [...]
All right BSB readers, the Senate Republicans have screwed around long enough. It’s time to start making them really own this.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and you do), is to bring up the budget battle to at least three people you know that don’t follow politics [...]
