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A "blue ribbon" commission on contracting work with Wright-Patterson Air Force won't try to alter the federal contracting process, said U.S. Rep.

Here's what some lawmakers and candidates had to say about President Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan on Tuesday, Dec.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's plan to send more troops to Afghanistan, which he will detail in a national address tonight, is already drawing questions from Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

To see the divisions among Democrats on reforming the nation's health-care system, look no farther than Ohio.

House Republican leaders were all lined up earlier this year behind their version of a defense-spending bill, one that included $368.8 million to continue production of the F-22 fighter.

LANCASTER -- Lawmakers say changes need to be made in state and national policy to attract more companies to the area and help current businesses continue to grow.

It isn't that David L. Hobson of Springfield is suddenly switching party allegiance or wavering in his support of a protege or a former congressional colleague.

At a construction site along State Route 274 in Logan County, Kurt Stahler is working on a construction project funded through the $787 billion federal stimulus program.

The recent discovery of remains of 11 women at the Cleveland home of a registered sex offender has led some to wonder if Ohio is doing enough to protect the public from those who have committed sex crimes.Anthony Sowell, who has already done prison time for attempted rape, has been charged with five counts of murder, and could face additional ...

One of Ohio's foremost champions of tougher sexual predator laws concedes that probably no law could have stopped the tragedy unfolding in Cleveland.

Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Austria, a former state Senator from the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek, repeatedly championed state laws that he and other supporters believed would make the state safer.

COLUMBUS -- Ohio's next election already has begun, and it's going to be big. In less than a year, Ohio picks a governor.

WASHINGTON -- In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.

The lights burn inside of the House of Representatives side of the U.S. Capitol late Saturday night as the health care bill is debated.

WASHINGTON -- The Democratic health care plans emerging out of Congress this week are facing stiff opposition from Ohio Republicans and some resistance from Ohio Democrats.

A number of freshmen Republican Representatives called upon their more senior colleagues in both parties to enhance transparency in the legislative process by putting bills online several days before reaching the floor.

The Ohio Association of Medical Equipment Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the misguided, flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.

A group of Ohio members of Congress is urging the Obama administration to grant the Buckeye State a $564 million slice of the high-speed rail stimulus funding pie, but most GOP lawmakers declined to sign the letter sent to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

In the 2008 presidential election, 46 percent of Americans voted against Barack Obama.

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