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The 2020 election showed that there is a right way and a wrong way for Democrats to try to win in states where they have historically lost. The extent to which they have learned those lessons will be revealed by the ways in which they pursue the winnable open Senate seats in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina next year.
STATEHOUSE NEWS BUREAU
Gov. Mike DeWine unveiled a two-year state spending budget with a $1 billion initiative to help bring the state back from the economic downfall of the pandemic. The budget proposal includes $460 million in relief for small businesses, with $20 million of that set aside for businesses that opened in 2020.
Here are your morning headlines for Tuesday, February 2:
DeWine proposes $1 billion state budget
FirstEnergy agrees to drop controversial “decoupling” fees
COVID-19 cases lowest since October, DeWine to get vaccine Tuesday
FBI looking for Northeast Ohio man suspected in assault at the Capitol
Yost passes on the Senate race, will run for reelection
via Zoom
In a virtual call with reporters, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Niles) says Congress is amassing evidence as it begins investigating the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Federal law enforcement across the country have begun arresting people who were part of the mob that ransacked the Capitol building this week.
Northeast Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan (D-Niles) heads the House committee that oversees the Capitol police.
He says video and cell phone evidence is being used to identify these domestic terrorists.
He says video also shows a confused and mixed response from police defending Congress.
Congressman Ryan says police response was mixed.