Jessica Wehrman
Jessica Wehrman cover Washington, D.C. for the Dayton Daily News and The Columbus Dispatch.
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Ohio lawmakers still divided on budget cuts
Nearly three months after the federal government slashed discretionary federal spending, the region’s congressional delegation remains divided on what the impact of those cuts will be.During the second day of the Dayton Development Coalition’s annual “fly-in” to Washington, D.C., federal lawmakers focused heavily on the spending cuts, known in Washington-speak ...
How Congress voted last week
How Congress voted last weekReaders have told us they want to know how local and Ohio members of the U.S. House and Senate are voting on major issues. In most Monday editions, we will publish a list of votes.HouseLocal southwest Ohio members in bold.H.R. 45 A bill to repeal the ...
Capitol Corridors
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, is speedy for a senator.Portman was the fastest U.S. senator competing in the ACLI Capital Challenge, a three-mile race benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project. The race brings together members of Congress, the media, the military and the executive branch. Portman ran with members of his staff.Ohio ...
Watchdogs say IRS targeted wrong groups
A burgeoning scandal that threatens to undermine President Barack Obama's second-term agenda mushroomed over the targeting of grandmothers like Marion Bower, who counts an annual garage sale as one of her local Tea Party group's biggest fundraisers. Bower's Fremont-based American Patriots Against Government Excess, which has an estimated $800 in ...
Tea Party groups plan legal action
A prominent Ohio conservative organization and 16 other Tea Party groups from across the country may sue the Internal Revenue Service after the federal government acknowledged the tax agency targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Such a suit, if filed, would ask for damages that could include the cost of ...
Butler County group was flagged by IRS
When Butler County’s Liberty Twp. Tea Party asked the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status as a charitable organization, IRS officials in Cincinnati last year responded with a list of 35 questions. They wanted to know the organization’s relationship with Justin Binik-Thomas, a Tea Party member in Cincinnati who had ...
Wright-Patt employees will face 11 furlough days starting in early July
Thousands of Wright-Patterson civilian employees won’t spend as much time off the job without pay after the Pentagon dropped the number of furlough days to 11 from 14 on Tuesday. The reduction cut in half the 22 furlough days that 13,000 local civil service workers originally faced earlier this year, ...
IRS mess prompts inquiries
Revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups because of their political beliefs provoked bipartisan fury in Washington Monday, with lawmakers demanding hearings and President Barack Obama calling the IRS targeted inquiries “outrageous.’’ Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, introduced a bill that would make it a crime — with penalties ...
Video: Portman says pot smoking ‘something I regret’
Now it can be told: Sen. Rob Portman inhaled.Portman, R-Ohio, sitting for an interview with Buzzfeed last week, admitted to smoking pot when he was younger, though he said he’s now very involved in drug prevention.A video of his interview can be seen on YouTube.The news isn’t entirely new – ...
Portman admits he smoked pot
Now it can be told: Sen. Rob Portman inhaled.Portman, R-Ohio, sitting for an interview with Buzzfeed last week, admitted to smoking pot when he was younger, though he said he’s now very involved in drug prevention.The news isn’t entirely new – it was reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer in ...
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