I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

President Obama announced during his 2010 State of the Union address that he would create the debt commission by executive order because it had failed to pass the Senate. ("New 'battle' for Lake Erie" The Toledo Blade July 30 2007) He lobbied his colleagues in the Senate as well as Great Lakes governors and administration officials to take real action. S.

No other candidate in Ohio’s recorded history has received as many votes as Senator Voinovich did in 2004. He is the 15th person to serve as both governor of Ohio and U. Senate Voinovich garnered more than 3.