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Members of Congress are calling for the vice president and the U.S. cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment and remove President Trump from office, twelve days before he’s set to leave by constitutional obligation, after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.
Washington Post Capitol Hill Reporter Rhonda Colvin was inside the Capitol, she joins us to discuss.
Ohio leaders react to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Ohio Governor Mike Dewine faces criticism after signing the Stand Your Ground law.
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In the course of seven years, HB6 sends $1 billion in subsidies to nuclear plants, $140 million to solar farms, and hundreds of millions of dollars to coal plants, paid for by new charges on every Ohio electric user’s bills. All while cutting green energy mandates.
The beginning of 2020 had so much on its plate with the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn that it seemed like the controversial energy law had been left in the rear view mirror.
That s U.S. Attorney David DeVillers announcing that Republican House Speaker Larry Householder was under arrested for alleged racketeering. Investigators say Householder and four other defendants took part in a $61 million bribery scheme that helped Householder rise to power in order for him to pass the nuclear power plant bailout. An unnamed utility believed to be FirstEnergy was also involved. FirstEnergy’s former subsidiary Energy Harbor owns the plants.
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Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center administers first round of COVID-19 vaccine to staff.
Gov. Mike DeWine held a COVID-19 briefing today, focusing on the distribution plans for both the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccine in Ohio. Eight hospitals received their first batch today, joining the two hospitals that got vaccine shipments yesterday. DeWine said he has been told that Ohio will continue to get vaccines through the end of December. By Christmas, Ohio should receive 420,000 doses of the vaccine.
Medical professionals from across Ohio joined DeWine to discuss their institution s distribution of the vaccine, including Kasi Gardner, a registered nurse at Mercy Health Springfield Regional Medical Center, who got the COVID-19 vaccine during the briefing.