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How the House voted on Senate Bill 5
After making amendments and declining to table Senate Bill 5, here is how the House voted, according to the House Journal for March 30:
The question recurring, "Shall the bill as amended pass?"
The yeas and nays were taken and resulted - yeas 53, nays 44, as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative were: Representatives
Adams J. Adams R. Amstutz Anielski
Baker Balderson Beck Blair
Blessing Boose Brenner Bubp
Buchy Burke Butler Coley
Combs Derickson Dovilla Duffey
Gonzales Goodwin Grossman Hackett
Hagan, C. Hall Hayes Henne
Hollington Hottinger Huffman Landis
Maag Martin McClain McKenney
Mecklenborg Newbold Peterson Roegner
Rosenberger Ruhl Schuring Sears
Slaby Sprague Stautberg Stebelton
Thompson Uecker Wachtmann Young
Batchelder-53.
Those who voted in the negative were: Representatives
Antonio Ashford Barnes Budish
Carey Carney Celeste Clyde
DeGeeter Driehaus Fedor Fende
Foley Gardner Garland Gentile
Gerberry Goyal Hagan, R. Heard
Johnson Kozlowski Letson Luckie
Lundy Mallory McGregor Milkovich
Murray O'Brien Okey Patmon
Phillips Pillich Ramos Reece
Slesnick Stinziano Sykes Szollosi
Weddington Williams Winburn Yuko-44.
The bill passed.
Here's how the Senate voted on SB5
From the Senate Journal, here's how the Senate voted on Senate Bill 5 Wednesday evening after being amended by the House:
The question being,"Shall the Senate concur in the House amendments to Am. Sub. S. B. No. 5?"
The yeas and nays were taken and resulted - yeas 17, nays 16, as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative were: Senators
Bacon Beagle Cates Daniels
Faber Gillmor Hite Jones
Jordan LaRose Lehner Obhof
Schaffer Stewart Wagoner Widener
Niehaus-17.
Those who voted in the negative were: Senators
Brown Cafaro Grendell Hughes
Kearney Manning Oelslager Patton
Sawyer Schiavoni Seitz Skindell
Smith Tavares Turner Wilson-16.
So the Senate concurred in the amendments of the House of
Representatives.
Pursuant to Senate Rule No. 65, Senator Skindell demanded a verification
of the vote.
The President directed the Clerk to read, first the names of those senators
who voted in the affirmative, then of those who voted in the negative.
The Clerk preceded to read the names of those senators who voted in the
affirmative, then of those who voted in the negative.
The roll call was verified and the results declared.
Angry audience, angry Batchelder at the House Wednesday
After the Ohio House approved Senate Bill 5, opponents in the audience shouted repeatedly as House members attempted to conduct routine business. House Speaker William Batchelder, R-Medina, became angry, swore at one point as a House member asked for a point of privilege to honor a friend, and then made a reference to the departing protestors as "intellectuals."
The vote occurs at 220 minutes into this state government television archived video of the House. At that point the shouting begins and Batchelder summons the Ohio State Patrol to clear the hall.
Batchelder's exasperation with the audience occurs at about 224 minutes.
Fire department efficiency in Sandusky
Sandusky took a look at the efficiency of it's fire department, including a study by the International City/County Management Association. Here is the Sandusky Register's report. Be sure to check out the association's report linked at the end of the story.
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/news/2011/mar/01/icmastudyjs3211xml
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The budget bill has been introduced.......
While the Kasich administration has been testifying before the House for several days about what will be in the budget billl, the details weren't available until today.
The bill is now available online.
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Fire Department efficiency project launched
The Beacon Journal is in the initial stages of a new project that will look at fire department efficiency, including collaborative efforts between departments, possible mergers and best practices.
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Tension at the outset as SB5 comes to vote
Demonstrators gathered outside the state Capitol and lawmakers sparred as a House committee prepared to vote on an amended Senate Bill 5 to restrict government employee bargaining rights.
Although the amendments had not yet been unveiled, the Plain Dealer offered some glimpses.
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Akron Council fills Ward 8 vacancy
By Stephanie Warsmith
Beacon Journal staff writer
Akron's new Ward 8 councilman won't be in the position for long.
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Rude, crude research
Scholars to tackle incivility in politics
UA, Mount Union, CSU arrange panel
By Carol Biliczky
Beacon Journal staff writer
Failed candidate Ganley due in court on sex counts
UPDATE: Ganley arraigned, released. Plain Dealer
Thomas J. Sheeran
Associated Press
Clean Air Act, billions of dollars clean the air
Scrubbing out pollution
Company's changes part of bigger picture for utilities since 1990
FirstEnergy spends $1.8 billion on new system at power plant on Ohio River to help improve air quality, follow federal rules
Kasich's public unveiling of the budget is online
Ohio Government Television taped and archived Gov. John Kasich's public unveiling of his proposed budget March 15.
The two-hour presentation is available here.
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Cost-cutting governors face resistance, bad poll numbers and jokes
Gubernatorial candidates who pledged last year to reduce state budgets are hitting some tough headwinds.
Politico names Republicans John Kasich of Ohio and Chris Christie of New Jersey and Democrat Dan Malloy of Connecticut as case studies.
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Education improvement lost in political rhetoric
Gains in math go unnoticed
Politicians use national test to show Ohio students lacking proficiency, but review finds great improvements in 20 years, especially among blacks
By John Higgins
Beacon Journal staff writer
State's direct aid to local governments has history
The Cleveland Plain Dealer dug into the history books and found that the so-called "Local government funds," which will be cut by about half in Gov. John Kasich's budget, date back to the Great Depression.
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Kasich, Democratic group have different school funding numbers
Nearly all Ohio school districts face cuts
Group's state numbers 'flatly contradict' Kasich on budget projections
Published on Saturday, Mar 26, 2011
From staff and wire reports
