April 23, 2021 By Jim Myers
Washington, D.C. President Joe Biden continues to meet with members of Congress as he promotes his $2 trillion-plus infrastructure and jobs proposal, but Republicans sound committed to a much more modest approach limited to traditional infrastructure and paid for without repealing tax cuts they view as a signature issue.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said members of his party continue to work on a traditional infrastructure proposal that would cover roads, bridges, ports and broadband and a “more credible way to pay for it.”
“This proposal is a Trojan horse to roll back the historic 2017 tax reform plan that helped spur big-time wage growth and the best job market in a generation before COVID-19,” McConnell said of Biden’s proposal.
Ohio GOP lawmakers seek to set limits on ballot drop boxes, change early voting hours: Capitol Letter
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Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley (center) speaks with small business owners at Academy Tavern in Cleveland. Whaley, a Democrat, announced she was running for governor earlier this week. (Seth Richardson, cleveland.com)
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Voter bill details: A new Republican elections bill would limit ballot drop boxes to one site per county and allow them for 10 days of early voting compared to the 30 days for last year’s elections, while also eliminating early in-person on the Monday before Election Day. As Andrew Tobias writes, state Reps. Bill Seitz and Sharon Ray’s elections bill, as described in memo seeking co-sponsors that went out on Thursday, also would allow Ohioans to apply for absentee ballots online, and permit them to update their voter registrations at the BMV. The bill, which is likely to attract controversy giv
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A long-awaited commercial project in scenic Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., is set to become a leading example of an urban design concept known as New Urbanism.
The aim of New Urbanism is to create developments that are less like sterile suburbs and more like warm, walkable villages.
The New Urbanism movement was launched in the 1990s by architects and planners who wanted to encourage urban design that harkens back to pleasant cities where people don’t have to drive to a convenience store for a bag of milk. New Urbanist communities are still unusual, but there are dozens in the United States and a few in Canada now.
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Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton has made a major investment in a Finnish wearable tech firm.
Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat, sold a major investment in a high-end window company.
Dogecoin is a buy for Rep. Mark Green, a Republican.
Members of Congress routinely trade stocks, buying and selling the shares of companies that often have significant business before the federal government and sometimes spend lots of money to lobby lawmakers.
Insider dug through congressional financial disclosure records federal lawmakers filed in recent days. Here are the latest highlights this Insider s weekly congressional stock report:
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Why official census numbers are important for Ohio’s new redistricting process: Capitol Letter
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It s a bad idea to use population estimates to draw new Ohio congressional and statehouse districts for the 2022 elections instead of waiting for the official count now promised by the end of September, Rich Exner explains in an analysis. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP
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Nix this idea: One idea being floated during the long wait for census 2020 details is to use population estimates to draw new congressional and statehouse districts for the 2022 elections instead of waiting for the official count now promised by the end of September. Our census expert Rich Exner explains why that is such a terrible idea, pointing out how off-target previous estimates have proven and how large the margins of error routinely are at the local level. Plus, doing so could lead to court fights that would last so long, the real census numbers would l