Dec. 14, 2006: Listen to Sen. Robert Hagan (D-Younstown) comment about the motivation for passing a lead paint/CSPA bill (SB 117) (Senate floor debate)

Dec. 12, 2006: Speaker Jon Husted (R-Kettering) comments after House session about charges of a lack of bipartisan support on key legislation.
“Yesterday, Rep. Beatty made comments in Gongwer about the, ‘House Minority Leader Joyce Beatty, however, said action on this legislation,’ referring to the abortion bill we just passed, ‘could jeopardize the spirit of bipartisanship the GOP promised in the transition to a Democratic administration. We think this bill is in the category of mean spirited, whirlwind legislation that the Speaker said we would not have,’” Rep. Husted said.
“I want to state for the record that 68 members of the House of Representatives including 12 Democrats and more than two-thirds of this body voted for that bill. By no means was it either mean spirited or not bipartisan,” he said.

March 8, 2006: Listen to Sen. Marc Dann (D-Liberty Twp.) talk about how he learned about an effort to add a minimum wage amendment to a workers' compensation bill (SB 7) (Senate floor debate)

May 12, 2004: “We are supposed to, in our jobs as legislators, do an adequate job of following the bills in committees, whether we sit on those committees or not. Gongwers publishes a daily record of the proceedings…” - former House Speaker Pro Tem Gary Cates (R-West Chester), on the House floor, in response to concerns that members did not have sufficient information on which to base their votes on a tobacco settlement budget.

Apr. 29, 2004: “We learned (about it) by reading the Gongwer newsletter on Wednesday.” - Senator Marc Dann (D-Liberty Twp.), in the Senate Judiciary Committee, in response to a Senate Republican plan to combine provisions of two bills dealing with the civil justice system.