The following is a list of the Ohio federal level Senators and House reps that voted for the fiscal cliff bill. That is, they voted for: NO SPENDING CUTS, and INCREASING TAXES on 77% of Americans, and especially Obama’s definition of “the rich”, which is Americans that earn over $400,000 (single) or $450,000 (married). (They [...]
December 31, 2012 “If it’s bad for taxes to go up for a bunch of people, why is it good for taxes to go up only on a small portion of people? … You will take money from the productive sector, which is the private sector, and you will put it into the non-productive sector, [...]
‘A travesty of justice’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the United States Senate voted on the conference report of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA), which was stripped of an amendment during the House-Senate conference committee that would have guaranteed Americans the right to due process and a jury trial. The amendment, introduced by [...]
On Wednesday, OLC Co-founder and American Majority Ohio State Director, Chris Littleton broke the news that Ohio Senator Rob Portman has signed on as a co-sponsor to Rand Paul’s, Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2011, also known as the “Audit the Fed” bill. From Chris Littleton’s posting: It’s more often than not that I disagree [...]
Republicans 47, Democrats 15. Although it seems like that would be a great score if it was a football game, it’s actually the average scores for our Ohio representatives to congress on FreedomWorks “Key Votes” rating system. The republicans would be doing quite well on scale of 0-50, but, unfortunately for us, the scale is [...]
There are two pledges available for you to download and take to your Ohio house reps and Ohio state senators this election season – one against the implementation of an Obamacare state insurance exchange and one against imposing an increased severance tax on gas and oil companies. Some reps have already been approached and they [...]
Republican Steve Stivers was the only Ohio Congressman to not go on record for the Audit the Fed vote today which passed in the House by a margin of 327 to 98. (We do not yet know the reason why Stivers didn’t vote on the bill, but if you are in Stivers district, we would [...]
Ohio representative Steven LaTourette (R, OH-14), was one of only two republicans to vote against holding Eric Holder in criminal contempt of congress over the Fast and Furious gun running scandal. From Buckeye Firearms Association’s July 6th article on the scandal: As the Buckeye Firearms Association article indicates, there were actually two votes made for [...]
Medina Tea Party Patriots recently sent out a well-organized email that summarizes how Ohio representatives stack up in several ratings systems published by five different conservative organizations. We include their email below along with an additional system called the Freedom Index published semi-annually by the John Birch Society. The NRA, Buckeye Firearms Association, and Ohio [...]
Today, the U.S. Senate voted on an amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill introduced by Senator Rand Paul (R, KY). The amendment would have limited eligible recipients of benefits in the bill to entities that earn an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $250,000 or less. Unfortunately, the amendment failed to pass by a vote of [...]
HB 495, the Concealed Carry and Reciprocity Modernization bill, passed late Wednesday afternoon in the Ohio House by a 59-28 margin. The vote was straight down party lines with all republicans voting for the bill and most of the democrats (who bothered to vote) voting against it. This is particularly interesting since some of the [...]
SB 305, the Vehicle Hidden Compartment bill, which we’ve been reporting on, passed on the Ohio House floor just after noon today. The bill was amended on the floor to add the critical changes (mentioned here) proposed by Representative Cliff Rosenberger (R, District 86, Clarksville) followed by passing of the bill with a vote of 77-16. Once [...]
