Press Releases

Oct 24, 2012

Rokita: Hoosier Heartland Highway is Result of ‘Great Team Effort’

Issues: Transportation

U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita joined Gov. Mitch Daniels and other state and local officials at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Lafayette-to-Delphi segment of the Hoosier Heartland Highway.

Oct 5, 2012

Rokita: Number of Americans Struggling for Work Has Remained Unchanged

U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita issued the following statement after the Labor Department released unemployment statistics for September.

Sep 28, 2012

ICYMI: Rokita Op-Ed: Complex, unfair tax code stands in way of recovery (The Hill)

Issues: Tax Reform

In an op-ed for The Hill, Rep. Rokita explains how our current tax code places a heavy burden on families and small businesses as our economy struggles to recover.

Sep 26, 2012

Rokita Earns Guardian Award from 60 Plus Association – Pat Boone: ‘Seniors Can Depend on Todd Rokita’

Issues: Health

U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita received the Guardian of Seniors’ Rights award from the 60 Plus Association at a healthcare town hall meeting hosted by the group at the Indiana Statehouse.

Sep 21, 2012

Rokita: We Must Keep Working to Find Bipartisan Agreement on STEM Visas

U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita issued the following statement after the House failed to pass the STEM Jobs Act, which would have offered 55,000 visas per year to skilled immigrants with advanced degrees from certain U.S. universities in the STEM fields.

Sep 20, 2012

Rokita Votes to Oppose Administration’s Rollback of Welfare Work Requirements

U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita voted in support of H.J. Res. 118, a resolution he cosponsored to disapprove of the Obama administration’s July decision to allow states to seek waivers of the work requirements in the 1996 welfare reform law.

Sep 19, 2012

Rokita, GOP Freshmen Send Letter Urging Economic Certainty as Congress Considers Tax Extenders Package

Issues: Tax Reform

Rep. Todd Rokita joined a group of 50 freshman Republican members in sending a letter to Chairman Dave Camp of the House Ways and Means Committee and Rep. Pat Tiberi, who serves as chairman of the Subcommittee on Select Revenue.

Sep 17, 2012

Rokita Announces Nov. 2 Deadline for Service Academy Nomination Requests

U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita announced that Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, is the deadline for military service academy applicants to request a nomination from his office.

Sep 14, 2012

Rokita Honored as Guardian of Small Business by NFIB

The National Federation of Independent Business, the nation’s leading small business association, named U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita (IN-4) a Guardian of Small Business for his outstanding voting record on behalf of America’s small-business owners in the 112th Congress.

Sep 13, 2012

Rokita: Waiver of Welfare Work Requirements Goes “Against Entire Idea of Human Dignity, Earned Success” (with VIDEO)

U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita, a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, voted to approve legislation to block President Obama from implementing a waiver of work requirements in the 1996 welfare reform law.

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