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Friday, June 18, 2010
Fix-the-budget commission finally announces meetings
Nearly a year after the passage of the current $50 billion, two-year-state budget, a special legislative commission that’s supposed to help solve a potential $8 billion hole in the next budget finally is getting around to meeting.
Rep. Vernon Sykes, D-Akron, and Sen. Shannon Jones, R-Springboro, - the co-chairs - on Friday, June 18, announced that the first meeting will be on June 29 and the commission will hear from the nonpartisan Ohio Legislative Service Commission.
The second meeting will be on July 7, with presentations from Gov. Ted Strickland’s Office of Budget and Management and the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Additional meetings will be determined by Sykes and Jones, a press release said.
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President Obama touts federal stimulus
President Barack Obama used the startup of a $15 million federal stimulus-funded road project in Columbus to kick off his administration’s six-week “Recovery Summer”.
The program is to tout the success of the $862 billion stimulus program in creating jobs and turning around the economy.
Outside on a sunny day against the backdrop of Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a a giant flag hanging from a crane, Obama said the stimulus has created jobs, cut taxes and helped reverse the economic slide he inherited. But there’s more to be done, the president said.
“There are still too many people here in Ohio and across the country who can’t find work,” Obama said.
The road project, which is to provide better access to the hospital, is expected to create 325 construction jobs.
Ralph Jones, 47, one of the construction workers who met the president, praised Obama.
“He’s done pretty good,” said Jones.
However, U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-West Chester, was among Republicans panning the Democratic president even before the event.
In a prepared statement, Boehner noted that Ohio’s May unemployment rate of 10.7 percent, reported Friday, marked the 14th straight month of double-digit joblessness.
“Again President Obama has come to Ohio and again he will tout a ‘stimulus’ that is failing to meet his promises by every reasonable standard,” Boehner said.
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Gov. Strickland urges President Obama to send space shuttle to Air Force museum
Gov. Ted Strickland on Friday, June 18, personally urged President Barack Obama to send one of the soon-to-be retired space shuttles to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
Obama made no commitment but listened carefully as they rode from the Columbus airport to a groundbreaking ceremony for a $15 million road projected funded by the federal stimulus, Strickland said.
“He seemed to understand the arguments,” Strickland said.
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Columbus event to kick off Obama’s “Recovery Summer”; Boehner responds
President Barack Obama’s appearance in Columbus on Friday, June 18, will kick off “Recovery Summer”, the Obama administration’s six-week campaign to highlight results of the $862 billion federal economic stimulus program.
In Columbus, Obama is set to participate in the groundbreaking for a $15 million street improvement project that is to improve access to Nationwide Children’s Hospital east of downtown. The project is supposed to generate 325 construction jobs.
It is the 10,000th federal stimulus road project to get started, the White House said. The program already has put about 2.5 million Americans to work, according to the White House.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and some Democratic members of Ohio’s U.S. House delegation are flying on Air Force One to Ohio with the president, the White House said.
Gov. Ted Strickland, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman also are to be at the Columbus event.
The event coincides with the release Friday of Ohio’s May unemployment rate of 10.7 percent, down from 10.9 percent in April but the 14th months of double-digit unemployment in the state.
U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-West Chester, noted the state’s continuing high unemployment in a response to the Obama visit.
“As today’s jobs report shows, this will be no ‘recovery summer’ for the more than 100,000 Ohioans who have lost their jobs since the ‘stimulus’ was enacted,” Boehner said in a prepared statement.
“While any positive growth is encouraging, there appears to be no relief in sight for middle-class families and small businesses struggling as a result of Ohio’s painfully high unemployment rate,” he added.
