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I have to admit that when President-elect Trump uttered "the cyber" during the first presidential debate, I was right there with the tech community in the collective eye-rolling that followed. "The Cyber" memes were born, along with real concern about the candidate's grasp on cyber security, and with the recent announcement of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as the cyber czar, those concerns multiplied.
Police say they received a call just before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday of a drug overdose at the Wesley Inn, 625 Wells St. Officers say they arrived to find 30 year old Erica Lenard and 23 year old Cody Lenard in the room with items commonly used in methamphetamine production. The weather may be warming up for now, but conditions are expected to get colder again.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is headed to Washington for a series of events, including the presidential inauguration of former political rival Donald Trump. He will meet with GOP Sen. John McCain, of Arizona, to discuss national security issues on Thursday and then join two private, round-table discussions with members of Senate committees.
Ohioans on Capitol Hill in Washington are asking the incoming administration to keep up with efforts aimed at improving Lake Erie. Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and Republican David Joyce are among four dozen members of Congress who sent a letter this week asking for continued support for research into harmful algae blooms.
Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky sits down with McClatchy and answers questions ranging from the repeal of the Affordable Care Act to the Donald Trump's surprise victory on election night Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said rolling back the Obama administration's environmental rules wouldn't entirely bring back the coal industry in eastern Kentucky. McConnell told McClatchy in an interview that lawmakers in Congress would work with the incoming Trump administration to "remove as many of the government impediments as possible and give the coal industry a chance to survive."
Vice President-elect Mike Pence is looking to a former US vice president-turned-president as a model for his new role as he prepares to assume the second-highest office in the country. He recently spoke on the phone with former President George H.W. Bush, Pence told CNN's Dana Bash in an interview Wednesday, and said the Ronald Reagan's former vice president offered him some advice.
Rep. Tom Price on Wednesday sought to avoid locking himself into specific positions-including some of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promises-as he prepares to step into the center of a fierce and unpredictable battle over the future of the health care system. Price, if confirmed to head the Department of Health and Human Services, would be at the forefront of Republicans' effort to develop and unify around a replacement for Obamacare as well as a strategy to enact that plan.
Senate Democrats strongly complained Wednesday that Republicans were trying to "jam" President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks through the chamber, and warned they would not rush to confirm the nominees on a timetable being advocated by Republicans. "These past two weeks we have seen repeated efforts from the Trump transition, aided and abetted by Senate Republicans, to jam through nominees that hides their views from the American people," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, after a meeting with his caucus during which they strategized over a path forward on the nominees.
Back in 2009, the Democratic New York senator overlooked Timothy Geithner's $35,000 unpaid tax bill and voted to confirm President Obama 's nominee for Treasury secretary. With his support, Geithner was confirmed by a vote of 60-34.
Like the man who picked him to be the next commerce secretary, Wilbur L. Ross is a billionaire with extensive financial interests and an ardent critic of America's trade policies - both of which came under scrutiny at his confirmation hearing Wednesday morning. President-elect Donald Trump's rise on a tide of anti-globalization and populist attacks on trade has raised concerns among businesses that the new administration will take aggressive protectionist actions and worsen the climate for trade.
The Republican-led panel voted 26-1 Wednesday to recommend that the full Senate consider the choice of retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to run the Pentagon.
Accompanied by Sen. Tim Scott and former senator Joe Lieberman, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing on Tuesday Jan. 17, 2017. The confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary underscored the likelihood of a significant shift in federal policy on sexual assault in college.
In a contentious hearing Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren grilled Rep. Tom Price - Donald Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary - over his proposal to cut to cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as his introduction of legislation that directly benefitted a company he held stock in. Noting that more than 100 million Americans receive healthcare through the federal programs Medicare and Medicaid, Warren asked Price if he hopes to cut Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion dollars, as his 2017 budget proposal suggests.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to run the White House budget office, failed to pay more than $15,000 in payroll taxes for a household worker more than a decade ago, prompting the Senate's top Democrat to issue a statement saying the lapse should disqualify his nomination.
Any doubts that repealing the core elements of the Affordable Care Act would have dire consequences for millions of Americans were laid to rest this week by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. In the first year after repeal, 18 million Americans would become uninsured, the CBO concluded .
FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2016 file photo, Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos speaks in Grand Rapids, Mich. DeVos, Trump's choice for education secretary, has spent over two decades advocating for school choice progra... A top Republican senator says Congress should not finalize repeal of President Barack Obama's health care law unless it first has a replacement ready.
In a sometimes contentious confirmation hearing, education secretary pick Betsy DeVos pledged that she would not seek to dismantle public schools amid questions by Democrats about her qualifications, political donations and long-time work advocating for charter schools and school choice. DeVos said she would address "the needs of all parents and students" but that a one-size-fits-all model doesn't work in education.
For Senate Republicans, these are heady times. Against expectations, they maintained control of their majority and are virtually guaranteed of keeping control of the upper chamber after the 2018 midterms, thanks to a favorable map.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine led a group of 13 states in challenging the federal government's so-called Stream Protection Rule as drastically and illegally limiting coal mining in disregard of state regulatory authority. The states filed suit in federal court, and many also asked Congress to revoke the last-minute Obama Administration regulation.