Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) voted in favor of H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, a bill that reforms current K-12 education law to help develop and implement policies, programs, and activities that lead to academic improvements and more accountability on the state level.
“A one size fits all policy from Washington is not meeting the education needs of our nation’s children. We… Read more »
Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) issued the following statement applauding the House Energy and Power Subcommittee for its advancement of energy and jobs legislation yesterday, including H.R. 1582, the Energy Consumers Relief Act, and H.R. 1900, the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act:
“During my meetings with various manufacturing businesses, I often hear concerns regarding… Read more »
Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) applauded the passage of the U.S. House Energy and Water Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2014, which funds critical national infrastructure programs while reducing spending below previous fiscal years and working towards a balanced budget.
Additionally, the bill includes language within the committee report that would help level the playing… Read more »
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 »
