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The U.S. House Wednesday voted on a bill that would create a commission to investigate the U.S. Capitol attacks that occurred on Jan. 6. The bill passed in the House and will be voted upon by the Senate.
Here s where the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky delegation stands.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Columbia Tusculum)
Voted: No
Statement: “This commission, as structured, declines to include investigating security vulnerabilities associated with the violent extremism attack at the baseball field on 6/14/17. We should be evaluating all of our security vulnerabilities. Democrats voted down my amendment to do just that. As well, the language of the bill does not explicitly require that the staff of the commission be bipartisan.
Locals react to state ending COVID restrictions
By Erik Martin - DarkeCountyMedia.com
Pictured is Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, visiting Reid Health in Greenville in March. Local citizens offered their reactions to DeWine’s announcement that the state would drop its COVID mandates June 2.
Dale Barger | Darke County Media
DARKE COUNTY Political leaders and local citizens offered their opinions on Gov. Mike DeWine’s Wednesday announcement that the State of Ohio would lift all mask and social distancing mandates effective June 2.
Ohio State Republican Chairman Bob Paduchik issued the following statement on Gov. DeWine’s announcement on the lifting of COVID-19 health orders:
NPRC backlog continues to impact veterans
By Nathaniel Kubik - DarkeCountyMedia.com
Davidson
DARKE COUNTY Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Troy, Ohio) visited the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Mo., on Monday to express his concern with the nearly 500,000 backlogged veterans record requests. As a result of COVID-19, the NPRC has been understaffed and unable to process record requests in a timely manner, which has led to major issues regarding veterans benefits that include medical care, service awards, military honors at funerals, student loan and mortgage assistance, and other services for veterans facing homelessness, even COVID-19 vaccines.
The NPRC closed over a year ago, and has been sporadically working at a very limited capacity, at times as low as 25 percent of their usual staffing. The result is that veterans are waiting inordinate periods of time to access benefits they earned while serving, and some have been buried without honors because of these del
Karen Kasler
On this inauguration day, security remains high at the Ohio Statehouse after preparations for a weekend armed march that never fully materialized. They included a stepped-up increase of law enforcement and limited access to the building.
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Gov. Mike DeWine said there were “credible threats” of violence directed at Ohio, which led him to authorize 580 National Guard personnel for Ohio security needs and a thousand to go to Washington.
“We don t know what s going to happen. We hope nothing happens. We hope it s as peaceful as it was on Sunday in our capital. But this is always the question. And what we do know is when you have enough forces there, the likelihood of violence goes down, DeWine said.