Former state Sen. Steve Stivers today filed paperwork to run a second time for Congress, but it appears that he won't have the Republican field to himself.
Stivers, who narrowly lost to Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy in last year's congressional race, formally entered the 2010 race with a press' [...]
The only central Ohio lawmaker going after earmarks this year is boasting of getting $7.6 million worth in a 2010 defense spending bill approved by the House.
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, says she views earmarks, amounts of money set aside for congressional pet projects, as legitimate ways for [...]
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy has a new spokesman.
Josh Rosenblum is stepping into the communication director's role for the Columbus Democrat. His background includes stints as communications director for Rep. Ciro D. Rodriguez, D-Texas, and press secretary for Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D.
Rosenblum, 31, is a native of New York [...]
Although it's nearly a year away, the race for central Ohio's 15th Congressional District already is attracting national attention.
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, a Columbus Democrat who narrowly won last year after narrowly losing in 2006, will be defending her seat in Congress against her 2008 opponent, former state [...]
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, says shes in agreement with President Obamas jobs creating strategy.
People in central Ohio know that we need to create jobs, not just retain jobs, which is why I agree that we should help the economy with fiscally responsible small business loans, tax [...]
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, says Obama's speech tonight laid out a "military strategy, a civilian surge, and the need for addressing the presence of Al Qaeda in other parts of the world, including Pakistan."
Kilroy said she understands both "the need to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda," [...]
Handing Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, a major victory, the federal government today reversed course and decided to allow state and local governments to use homeland security grants to maintain emergency equipment.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the decision just days after a House committee approved a bill [...]
The House Homeland Security Committee today approved a bill co-sponsored by Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy that would allow state and local governments to use federal homeland security grants to maintain first responders emergency equipment instead of just buying new equipment.
The Columbus Democrat co-authored the bill with Rep. [...]
Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy met with about two dozen seniors from Ohio's fifteenth congressional district yesterday at the Cantebury Apartment building in Columbus.
The roundtable discussion focused on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962), which passed in the U.S. House of Representatives Saturday' [...]
