In the News
By: Tom Troy, Toledo Blade
June 22, 2016
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) proposed an amendment to a House bill today that would prohibit a person on the "no-fly list" of the Terrorism Watch List from being able to buy a gun. It was voted down.
The exchange occurred during debate on appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security.
To put someone's name on the terrorism watch list a law enforcement agency must have "reasonable suspicion" that an individual is involved somehow in terrorism.
By: Stephen Koff, The Plain Dealer
June 21, 2016
By: Hazel Bradford, Pensions & Investments
June 21, 2016
By: Tom Jackson, Sandusky Register
June 21, 2016
Teamsters in northern Ohio and other areas of the Midwest.
Only a full-fledged investigation can uncover why the fund is in such bad shape, Kaptur said.
By David B. Brandolph, Bloomberg BNA
June 20, 2016
Fifty-one Democratic lawmakers have asked the GAO to investigate the financially troubled Central States pension fund's investment decisions.
Ten Democrats in the Senate and 41 in the House requested on June 20 that the Government Accountability Office review the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund's investment decisions going back to 1982, when the fund came under the supervision of a court-ordered consent decree.
By: 13abc (and many other news outlets)
June 17, 2016
They’re something every family with children need but many are struggling to afford them.
“The average cost of diapers is about 1,000 dollars a year,” Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9) said.
By: Nick Penniman, The Hill
June 14, 2016
This is a year of political rebellions. Donald Drumpf and Bernie Sanders are the two biggest examples. And one of the few issues that unites them is driving the other rebellion: a rejection of political fundraising.
Some members have compared the endless need for campaign cash to torture. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who wrote in the New York Times a few months ago that he spent 4,200 hours in the last 16 years asking for money, equated dialing for dollars to “waterboarding.”
By: Sam Catherman, BABW News
June 13, 2016
The Great Lakes are under threat from potentially toxic algal blooms, and Midwestern states are stepping up to take action in an effort to control the problem. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Ohio is just the most recent state to take measures to bring the harmful algal blooms back to safe levels ahead of the summer season.
By: Mary-Louise Hoffman, Executive Gov
June 13, 2016
House Appropriations Committee members have cleared a bill that would provide $21.7 billion to fund operations of the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Small Business Administration and U.S. federal courts for fiscal year 2017.