SUPPORTS MERGER--Dean Johnson, director of Legislation and Political Action for the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, listens to testimony during a meeting of the joint House-Senate committee concerning the merging of the human-services and employment-services agencies into the Department of Job and Family Services, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999. OCSEA has 3,600 members that will be affected but has been assured by legislative leaders that laid-off workers will be offered other employment. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)