Gov. Mike DeWine answered questions about Ohio State University's next president, bills heading to his desk, Amtrak expansion and more.
Kennedy was elected chief justice in November creating an opening on the court for her current seat.Ohio lawmakers are sending DeWine a bill"I'm not going to say what I'm going to do with it, but you might want to go back and look what I did in the U.S. Senate in that area," DeWine said.
In 2004, DeWine teamed up with then-U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy on a bill to give the Food and Drug Administration the power to ban new flavored cigarettes and prohibit marketing to children. More recently, DeWine has alsoDeWine personally enjoys riding on Amtrak trains, having once loaded the family into one for a Colorado camping adventure. But he's still weighing whether Ohio will sign off on
"In a perfect world, you'd love to have passenger rail in the state of Ohio," DeWine said."The question is: What is the cost going to be?"DeWine said he doesn't yet have that answer from federal officials. Another factor, DeWine said, is how quickly Ohioans could travel from city to city, and whether that would encourage people to take the train instead of driving.
"If they can do it in the same amount of time that it takes to drive a car, it might be competitive, but if it's going to take longer, that ridership is going to drop off," he said.DeWine didn't reveal whether he would sign or vetoHe commended lawmakers for addressing"substantive problems" with earlier versions of the proposed legislation, then said:"The last two secretaries of state have both said that we have a very good system in the state of Ohio.
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