Ohio GOP hopes to fast track vote on Senate Bill 5
(The following appeared on The Columbus Dispatch website on March 9, 2011.)
COLUMBUS, Ohio House Speaker William G. Batchelder now says he hopes to bring the collective-bargaining bill to the floor for a vote next week, after indicating for the past several days that he wanted to hold three weeks' worth of hearings.
The House Commerce and Labor Committee held its second hearing today on Senate Bill 5, and a third hearing is scheduled for Thursday. It is unclear how the committee could hold nine hearings and still get the bill to the House floor next week.