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May 16, 2012
House Representatives to Hold Another Committee Hearing Today to “Get Rid Of” Planned Parenthood COLUMBUS, OHIO – Today, Wednesday, May 16, Ohio Statehouse Republicans scheduled a third hearing on House Bill 298, their bill to reprioritize and ultimately defund Planned Parenthood’s preventive health care programs. This morning’s hearing in the Ohio House of Representatives Health and [...]
May 15, 2012
Two Senate Democrats unveiled a proposal on Tuesday that would make it harder for Chinese solar panel firms to qualify for tax credits that they say are giving those companies an edge over U.S. manufacturers. The measure, introduced by Sens. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio), would add a domestic content requirement to solar [...]
May 15, 2012
Youngstown Vindicator – Mandel meets with small-business owners Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, said his opponent, incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown, is a “liar,” who makes “false statements.” “If anyone knows about not telling the truth, it’s Josh Mandel, who has repeatedly been branded a ‘pants-on-fire’ liar by nonpartisan fact-check [...]
May 15, 2012
Busy Being Treasurer Campaigning For Higher Office, Mandel Filed His 2010 PFD Almost Six Months Past Deadline COLUMBUS, OHIO – Tomorrow will present Josh Mandel with a once-in-a-year opportunity to take a break from refusing to say if he hired 34 staffers at taxpayer expense without ever reviewing their resumes and qualifications to file his Personal [...]
May 14, 2012
COLUMBUS – Today, U.S. Senator Robert Portman (R-OH) cited a figure that has been disputed again and again while trying to defend Mitt Romney and Romney economics at a luncheon for journalists in New York hosted by Bloomberg. Portman claimed that Romney “can show where his efforts net created 100,000 jobs” when the fact is that [...]
May 10, 2012
COLUMBUS, OHIO – Today, in response to Senator Portman turning his back on students by voting to protect tax loopholes instead of college affordability, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern issued the following statement: “Senator Portman and his Republican colleagues turned their back on Ohio students this week when they voted to double interest rates [...]
May 9, 2012
Time and again, Democrats have knocked Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel for skirting important issues and avoiding taking positions on tough issues. But it’s hard to imagine the Republican Senate nominee has no opinion on one of President Obama‘s highest-profile initiatives, his $447 billion jobs plan that failed in Congress last fall. Yet, in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch, [...]
May 8, 2012
… Mandel also continued his policy of refusing to weigh in on active congressional legislation. A reporter asked where he stood on a bill from Brown and other Senate Democrats that would keep interest rates on federal student loans from doubling and saddling graduates — including young entrepreneurs — with more debt. Mandel said he was glad “politicians [...]
May 7, 2012
EUCLID, Ohio — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney returned to the Cleveland area today armed with the same economic arguments he has been using against President Barack Obama for months on the campaign trail. So it was up to his warm-up acts and questioners in the audience to provide elements of surprise – and [...]
May 7, 2012
EUCLID, Ohio — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today criticized economic and other policies of President Barack Obama in a speech followed up by a question-and-answer session at a metal stamping factory here. But the Romney campaign was thrown on the defensive when warm-up speaker David Yost, the Ohio auditor of state, said President Obama [...]
