Politics Extra  Ohio voting law to be subject of congressional
hearing  Ohio’s controversial new voting law will get some
congressional scrutiny next week, when a top Senate Democrat
convenes a field hearing on the measure in Cleveland.  Sen. Dick
Durbin, the Senate’s No. 2 Democratic leader and chairman of a
key Senate Judiciary subcommittee, announced Monday that he
would hold a hearing on the law May 7 at the Carl B. Stokes
United States Court House.  Durbin, of Illinois, and other
Democrats fear the Ohio law—and other similar state
restrictions—are aimed at making it harder for citizens to vote
in the November election, particularly lower-income and minority
voters who tend to support Democrats.  “A spate of recently
passed state voting laws seem designed to restrict voting by
making it harder for millions of disabled, young, minority,
rural, elderly, homeless, and low income Americans to vote,”
Durbin said in a statement Monday.  The Ohio statute shrinks the
number of days voters can cast early ballots,