Rep. Steve Stivers broke with most House Republicans on Thursday to vote in favor of a transportation and housing spending bill, saying he wanted to “send a message” that the three-week partial shutdown of the federal government should come to an end. Although Stivers, R-Upper Arlington, voted against a second bill to finance the Department of Agriculture, his vote was yet another sign that Republicans on Capitol Hill are increasingly uneasy about President Donald Trump’s insistence that Congres...
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Ohio -- The New Year and new Congress has been consumed by the ongoing partial government shutdown, but Ohio’s representatives in the nation’s capital still have a list of things they’d like to accomplish in 2019. Spectrum News Washington reporter Taylor Popielarz spent the last few weeks interviewing eight of Ohio’s 16 members of the U.S. House of Representatives about their priorities. Representative Troy Balderson (Republican, 12th Congressional District) Balderson spent almost all of 2018 ca...
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The Pentagon’s recent decision to bring a major F-35 program to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base not only means more jobs for the area, but more notoriety within the U.S. military.
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Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, will co-chair the House Municipal Finance Caucus, according to a statement released on Dec. 10 by current caucus co-chairman Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md.
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More than 150 years after Athens native Milton Holland was denied a battlefield promotion in the Civil War due to his race, officials are still working to reverse that injustice.
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On the banks of the shallow but shimmering Scioto River, across from the towering, scattered skyscrapers in the central business district of Ohio’s capital city, stands a modernistic circular building that looks at a glance like a cross between a contemporary Olympic facility and a hockey stadium.
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Missing mail, wrong mail, no mail at all. Several Central Ohio neighborhoods have had major problems with the US Postal Service, and have complained to ABC 6 the Post Office was ignoring their concerns.
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The RESULTS Act of 2018, bipartisan legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH), became law this week as part of a larger, wide-ranging policy package that aims to end the opioid devastation ravaging Americans.
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U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) on Oct. 19 said they were honored to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony for the KC-135 air refueling tank flight simulator at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio.
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U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 15th congressional district/Brigadier General in the Ohio Army National Guard, Steve Stivers, visited East Elementary School, met with some businessmen and stopped by the Morgan County Herald, last week.
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