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I got a letter for you, Ralph," a lawmaker says to Ralph
Regula, handing him a franked congressional envelope and
slapping him on the back. "We are getting a lot of these
these days," says Rep. Regula (R-Ohio), one of the 13
members of the "College of Cardinals" who chair the
subcommittees of the House Appropriations Committee. Inside
the envelope was the lawmaker's request for money to fund a
school, a hospital, job training or any one of hundreds of
other programs that Regula underwrites as chairman of the
Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS)
Subcommittee. The Hill News story 

Sometimes it takes a crisis to expose our shortcomings and
prod us toward change. That was certainly my hope as we
entered deliberations on Ohio's biennial budget. The governor
had proposed a reasonable spending package and a controversial
restructuring of the tax code. Instead, the legislature is
considering a budget that actually spends more than the
governor's initial proposal and fails to address the
structural flaws in the code. In tight times, we must reduce
spending in government. To spend in excess of the governor's
proposal is simply irresponsible. But as the legislature
looked to cut, the majority lacked the political resolve to
demand efficiency and expose waste. As long as we fail to
address wasteful spending, then dollars for education,
libraries, Head Start, Passport, and critical health services
will be on the chopping block. Rep. Steve Driehaus opinion

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