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Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) along with 154 of his pro-life colleagues, sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking the Secretary to suspend the contraceptive coverage mandate until HHS can ensure both employers and individuals are provided their constitutionally protected conscience rights.   “Members of Congress are using… Read more »

Congressman Latta (R-Bowling Green) announces that a new provision in the Department of Agriculture’s annual spending bill will allow public schools to donate excess food to charities and pantries. The new provision by Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) now ensures schools are covered under the Good Samaritan Act, which protects donors who  give to food banks in good faith from all… Read more »

Yesterday, I co-sponsored Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (R-MO) Defend Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) Resolution, H. Con. Res. 25, which calls on the Obama administration to reverse its decision to stop defending DOMA.  Since 1996, when President Clinton signed DOMA into law, which statutorily defined marriage, for federal purposes, as a “legal union between one man and one woman as husband… Read more »

On Friday, Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) cast his first pro-life vote of the 112th Congress; he voted in support of the Protect Life Act during a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. The bill would prevent federal funding of abortion or abortion coverage in the Democrat passed health care law – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. … Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R- Bowling Green) made the following statement recognizing the various events that took place today in Washington, D.C. surrounding the 2011 March for Life.   “As an elected official, protecting the sanctity of life has been a cornerstone of my policy objectives over the past twenty years.  Now that Republicans control the majority in the House of… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) released the following statement after House Republicans presented A Pledge to America, a new governing agenda focused on addressing the American people’s top priorities. The Pledge is the culmination of a months-long engagement with the American people in which House Republicans sought their ideas and priorities for Congress.  The agenda… Read more »

In light of recent reports detailing plans by several states to use high-risk pool health plans funded by federal taxpayer dollars under President Obama’s health care law to offer abortion services, Ohio House GOP members yesterday urged Governor Ted Strickland (D) to assure Ohioans that the final plan to be submitted by the State of Ohio will not include elective abortion as a covered… Read more »

Today, Congressman Bob Latta, along with 179 of his pro-life colleagues, sent a letter to Senate and House leadership.  The letter urges House and Senate leadership to reject an amendment to the  FY2011 National Defense Authorization Act offered by Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) to strike Section 1093(b) of Title 10 of the US Code.  The amendment, which  passed by a vote… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) made the following statement regarding the Executive Order President Obama is expected to sign surrounding the pro-life issues in the Democrat health care reform package that was signed into law today.   “On Sunday, March 21, Congress held a career-defining vote on the issue of government funding of abortion and for the pro-life… Read more »