The Ohio House passed a two-year, $88 billion state budget plan on Wednesday that would provide hundreds of millions in middle-class income-tax cuts, offer pay raises for teachers, and expand school-voucher eligibility, among a litany of other things.
“Today is a big day for Ohio,” said House Speaker Jason Stephens, a Lawrence County Republican, to reporters after the vote. He abruptly walked away without taking questions from reporters.
Several Republican allies of state Rep. Derek Merrin, a Toledo-area Republican who lost the speaker’s vote to Stephens, repeatedly attempted to gain recognition to offer amendments, but Stephens declined to recognize them. House Majority Floor Leader Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, asked his colleagues in a floor speech to reject the “unprecedented” number of amendments that were offered.
Afterward, Merrin told reporters that Seitz’s argument was “nonsense,” as the state of Ohio has more than $3 billion in its rainy-day fund, $5 billion in its general-revenue fund, and $2 billion or so in other accounts.
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