Robert E. Latta

the number one issue I hear from them always, the top issue, are regulations coming from Washington and how it is hindering their businesses.

I am concerned that the regulatory uncertainty coming from the FDA will discourage innovation and investment in mobile apps.

While there are many positive stories of BTOP and BIP projects, including several in the state of Ohio, the stories of waste, fraud, and abuse are alarming.

High-speed broadband has become a necessity of life. It has already transformed our economy and the possibilities for the future are endless.

Taxpayers deserve thorough oversight of the billions of dollars spent on these programs.

It was, and it thankfully remains, a bipartisan effort to make progress in an area where you all have pointed out, agreement is imminently possible.

You said there were a number of reasons why the market warranted an approach of setting a price of pollution as cost effective.

The one-size-fits-all energy efficiency mandates ignore the substantial diversity of preferences, financial resources, and personal situations.

The greatest gains in energy efficiency come from the private sector in a growing economy.

The bill that Senator Shaheen and Senator Portman will offer, I think provides a promising path that is worthy of our consideration.

proponents of multilateral intergovernmental control of the Internet are patient and persistent incrementalists who will never relent until their ends are achieved

The Institute of Medicine has strong evidence that TV ads influence food and beverage purchases and requests for kids under the age of 12.

Jobs is the number one issue that this Congress has got to be facing, and everything that I talk about is about jobs.

First, valuable spectrum that is currently underutilized will be freed up through voluntary incentive auctions.

Unfortunately, this proposed plan furthers government regulation into our private citizen's lives by giving the Federal Reserve the authority on systemic risk and financial stability.

With this legislation, we risk taking a part of the market that is functioning effectively, and imposing it through new rules and regulations needlessly.

We can't expect the next generation of biofuels to materialize if we don't allow the industry to succeed in the first place.

This legislation will kill jobs in the United States, and will hit citizens' pocketbooks hard.

Not only will farmers in my district, and throughout the country, be burdened with not being able to afford to operate their farms, this legislation will raise their electric rates, gasoline rates and place an even larger burden on their…

If H.R. 2454 is enacted, job losses are projected at 1,105,000, with peak unemployment projected at 2.5 million.

Farm income is expected to drop $8 billion in 2012, $25 billion in 2024 and over $50 billion in 2035 if this legislation is enacted.

I strongly feel that cap-and-trade legislation is a transfer of wealth and an attack on the Midwest.

If the United States were to completely cease using fossil fuels, the increase from the rest of the world will replace United States' emissions in less than 8 years.

This legislation will have even more devastating effects by 2035, as by that time this legislation will have reduced our gross domestic product by $9.6 trillion.

What in the fiscal stimulus package out there is going to help the Fifth Congressional District in the next few months?