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This week on "The State of Ohio": The Senate version of the budget is on its way, with just a few weeks remaining to hammer out differences with the House. Lawmakers try to clarify the state auditor's role with JobsOhio. And we revisit and update two controversial issues from the last year - the abortion debate in Ohio and the state's new exotic animals law and the facility it created.
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| GOP lawmakers propose water-use rules for regional deal, but environmentalists say they're all wet. |
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By Bill Cohen - May 12, 2011 |
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Years ago, Ohio legislators endorsed the Great Lakes Compact, an agreement among the neighboring states that they won’t let other regions or countries siphon water away from any of the Great Lakes. By 2013, though, Ohio has to enact new water-use standards because it's part of the compact. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports business groups and some Republican legislators have unveiled their proposal for those standards, but environmentalists don’t like it. |
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Bill Cohen reports (2:52) 
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