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It is another blow to labor unions heavily unionized in the Midwest, which is home to many countries

(Darron Cummings/Associated Press)-House minority leader b. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, and Rep. Vanessa Summers, D-Indianapolis, read total votes for the right to work bill in the Statehouse Wednesday, January 25, 2012, at Indianapolis.

Vote came after weeks of protest by the Democratic minority tried different tactics to stop the Bill. They refused to show up to debate despite the threat of fines which amounted to $ 1,000 per day and introduce a number of amendments aimed at postponing the vote. But their tactics could not admit last forever because they were outnumbered, they eventually agreed that the sound lasts.

The House voted 54-44 Wednesday to make Indiana the nation

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“At this point, I just can’t move,” Scott said in a speech delivered in the House Chamber to haltingly jammed and viewership TV live, with lawmakers the s full of flower commemmorative. “I asked again today to send me a budget that significantly increases State funds for education. This is one of the most important decisions we can make this day for Florida’s future. ”

Scott last spring signed a budget that cuts spending on schools by $ 1.3 billion. But in a series of meetings with parents across the country, he said they were convinced favored more money for school, and in an election year, the emphasis on education is likely to be well received by the voters.

He said the three most important goals as Governor to ensure that people have jobs and quality education and maintain a low cost of living. He called for reforms to reduce fraud in the automobile insurance system errors are not Florida, and he spoke in private personal job history, including running two donut shops.

In his address to the legislature dominated by Republicans, Scott claims that in the past year, the country saw 135,000 new jobs the private sector and a drop in unemployment among the State’s second largest (2 percent). He celebrated the census figures show that Florida grows more than 250,000 people over the past 15 months.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a campaign rally with South Carolina gov. Nikki Haley at Charles Towne landing as they will be greeted by supporters during a campaign stop in Charleston, South Carolina, January 5, 2012.

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters)-even as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic fighting out in New Hampshire, confrontation loomed large in South Carolina, a conservative state with political history that evil and choose the winners.

Basic countries on 21 January – 11 days after New Hampshire–could stand for the conservative’s last hope to stop the Board over the more moderate Mitt Romney, who is likely to fill out to South Carolina off consecutive wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, where he has a huge lead in opinion polls.

Romney’s victory in South Carolina would essentially wrapped up the nomination early, but a victory by a conservative like Rick Santorum will give the right-wing Republicans long-sought Saviour rally around in a race that had moved to Florida and other States.

“South Carolina where the person-but-Romney hopes to eventually find their banners,” said Republican strategist Tucker Eskew, who is from South Carolina. “It’s killing the land and the land that bear to the President of hope.”