Ohio’s election chief and the association representing election officials have backed a proposal to eliminate a statutory requirement for a special election to fill a vacancy in a party’s nomination for U.S. Congress in certain instances. House Bill 18, introduced by Republican Reps. Dorothy Pelanda and Wes Retherford of Marysville and Hamilton, respectively, would eliminate [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — For members of Congress, there’s nothing more American than baseball, apple pie and big defense contracts. After President-elect Donald Trump attacked the cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter on Monday as “out of control,” several lawmakers responded by praising the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons acquisition. Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — School voucher programs in the nation’s capital and Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s home state of Indiana could serve as a blueprint for a Trump administration plan to use public money to enable disadvantaged students to attend the public or private school of their choice. President-elect Donald Trump made clear that school choice [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress’s routine of publicly shaming drug company executives over high prices works no better than a placebo: It may make some people feel better, but it doesn’t treat the problem. In the last two years, House and Senate committees issued more than a dozen subpoenas to price-hiking drugmakers, collecting hundreds of thousands [...]
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has vowed to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges, airports and railways, but the path to delivering on that promise is full of potholes. When President Barack Obama tried to do it, a Republican Congress fought him at almost every turn, and Trump would have to contend with his party’s deep-seated dislike [...]