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Today, Congressman Latta (R-Bowling Green) introduced H.R. 2649, the Federal Communications Commission Analysis of Benefits and Costs, or FCC “ABCs,” Act.  The bill would require the FCC to perform cost-benefit analyses on economically significant rules and would also force the FCC to come to more deregulatory decisions by reforming the FCC’s forbearance authority and biennial… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) issued the following statement regarding the Obama administration's decision to delay the ObamaCare employer mandate by one year:   "The decision made today by the Obama Administration to delay implementation of a part of its own law only reiterates what House Republicans have been saying for the past three years, that this massive government… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green), along with U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman, sent a letter to The Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, requesting for an update on the status of available funds to be reprogrammed to the Blanchard River Flood Risk Management Project (BRFRMP).     “Mitigating flood risk in areas with… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), widely known as Obamacare:  “One year ago today the Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s health care law and ruled its mandate as a tax. While the country gets closer to the law’s… Read more »

Today, Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) voted in favor of a bill to expand U.S. offshore energy production, H.R. 2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act. “The U.S. has an abundance of natural resources and through the development of these resources we are able to create American jobs and lower energy prices. This bill will expand U.S. energy production while ensuring that it is… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) has cosponsored H.R. 2273, the Great Lakes System Sustainability Act. This bipartisan legislation would streamline the current Great Lakes Navigation System by creating a single, cohesive system for budgetary purposes, which would allow the system to compete for Army Corps of Engineers maintenance funding as one unit against other areas, rather than… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s latest proposal to implement regulations on new and existing power plants: “It is estimated that roughly 80 percent of Ohio’s electricity is generated from coal-fired power plants, and the coal mining industry accounts for over 3,000 jobs in Ohio, and over 760,000 American jobs… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) has signed on as a cosponsor to H.R. 1852, the Email Privacy Act, a bill to update current privacy laws and improve protections for electronic communications information stored or maintained by third-party service providers. “Digital communication privacy laws have not been updated since 1986, and yet technology has changed dramatically and is… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) led a letter with 19 of his colleagues to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell urging the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to consider existing state programs and regulations of hydraulic fracturing rather than duplicative federal regulations. The letter was sent in response to BLM’s Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding hydraulic… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) issued the following statement today regarding his support for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill to prohibit abortions 20 weeks after fertilization, which is during the second trimester: “The graphic accounts from the recent Gosnell trial brought to light the brutality and painful nature of abortion. The public and… Read more »