Rokita Votes to Reject the Senate’s Counterproductive Payroll Tax Gimmick

Today Rep. Todd Rokita voted to send HR 3630 to conference committee in order to reach a workable longer-term agreement that continues the payroll tax holiday for a year, provides support for Americans struggling to find work, cuts overall spending, protects the Social Security Trust Fund and reforms entitlement programs.

Rokita Votes to Cut Spending, Reform Entitlements, Spur Job Creation

Today Rep. Todd Rokita released this statement after voting for H.R. 3630, The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011.

ROKITA: New austerity in our future

The hard truth is, unless we get our spiraling debt situation under control, we are going to be facing an austerity so severe that it will make the last decade of economic stagnation look mild by comparison.

House Votes to Block EPA from Regulating Farm Dust

Today Rep. Todd Rokita released this statement after voting for H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011, legislation that prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing regulations dealing with farm dust:

Rokita Votes for REINS Act

Today Rep. Todd Rokita released this statement after voting for H.R. 10, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, legislation Rokita co-authored that requires Congressional approval for any regulation with $100 million or more in economic impact.

Rokita Votes to Rein in Economically Destructive Regulations

Today Rep. Todd Rokita released this statement following this week’s passage of H.R. 527, the Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act and H.R. 3010, the Regulatory Accountability Act.

House Passes Legislation to Block NLRB from Limiting the Rights of Employees, Employers

Today the House of Representatives passed legislation co-authored by Rep Todd Rokita, the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act (H.R. 3094)

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Rokita Responds to October Unemployment Report

Today Rep. Todd Rokita responded to the Department of Labor’s October jobs report which showed that the economy only created 80,000 jobs nationwide:

Rokita Questions FEC Bureaucrats on Refusal to Disclose Enforcement Rules

Rep. Todd Rokita pressed Federal Election Commission administrators on their refusal to make enforcement guidelines public and addressed the larger issue of unelected federal bureaucrats making decisions in secret during a House Administration Subcommittee on Elections hearing today