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Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) made the following statement reaffirming his call for a permanent extension of the current income tax rates.  Without action by December 31, 2010, the current income tax rates will increase, causing the largest tax increase in our nation’s history.   “Today marks thirty days until the largest tax hike occurs in our nation’s history, and… Read more »

This week, during the “YouCut” program sponsored by House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green)  submitted a spending cut proposal that would reduce funding for the Wild Horse and Burro Program and would save taxpayers approximately $280 million over ten years.  Since 1971 the Department of Interior has managed a program to maintain and… Read more »

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Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) made the following statement today on the six month anniversary of President Obama’s and House and Senate Democrats’ health care bill being signed into law. “As a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a committee with jurisdiction over health care issues in the United States, I am extremely troubled that six months after this bill… Read more »

This week, Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) introduced H.R. 5959, the Tax Education and Accountability Act (TEA Act). This legislation will repeal the provision in law that requires employers to deduct or withhold federal taxes from an employee’s paycheck, therefore requiring individuals to pay their own tax liability on a quarterly basis.  “With this legislation,… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) joined House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and other republican members of Ohio’s Congressional Delegation today reacting to a recent news report from Columbus’ WCMH-TV highlighting a Strickland administration decision to use Ohio’s federal “stimulus” dollars to create jobs in Central America.  As several suggested, this is exactly why… Read more »

Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) made the following statement after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) announced this week that House Democrats will not pass a budget for Fiscal Year 2011. “One of the main responsibilities of Congress is to pass an operating budget for the Federal government, and it is a sad state of affairs when House Democrat leadership cannot perform… Read more »

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Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) today issued the following statement after the House Republican Economic Recovery Working Group launched YouCut, a first-of-its kind initiative designed to change the culture of spending in Washington to a culture of savings.  Congressman Latta is a member of the House Republican Economic Recovery Working Group.   “America is at a… Read more »

Over the past year, Congress conducted an extensive debate on health care reform.  No one will argue that we do not need health care reform, and I was proud to support meaningful alternatives that unfortunately never received hearings or debate in the House.  While I believe the legislative and debate process used to pass this health care reform package was flawed, it is now… Read more »