Ohio: Jim Jordan

"As I think everybody here will agree, this is only the first step," Obama said of the bill that reauthorizes the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

"Because the way I see it, providing coverage to 11 million children through CHIP is a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American," he said.

Obama held the ebullient East Room signing ceremony a day after admitting that he "screwed up" in naming former Sen. Tom Daschle to spearhead his health-care overhaul.

The president wrapped the signing event in another pitch for his separate $819 billion economic plan that now is under consideration in the Senate and faces Republican opposition.

Corrected - All but three of Ohio’s Republican U.S. representatives voted against giving General Motors and Chrysler $14 billion in loans so they do not run out of money.

U.S. Reps. John Boehner (R-West Chester), Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) and Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) discussed last week their recent trip to Alaska's North Slope, where energy companies are developing oil and gas, as well as the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado, as part of what Boehner's calling the American Energy Tour.

The three Ohio congressmen traveled with eight freshmen colleagues.

Boehner said that the two places hold the key to America's energy future.