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Jul 12, 2012
| WLFI
The USDA authorizes emergency use of preserved land.
Issues: Economy and Jobs
Due to dry conditions, some preserved land will now be available for livestock to graze.
Jul 12, 2012
| Monticello Herald Journal
Rokita joins effort to preserve lake level
Although Lake Freeman’s level continues to hover about six inches lower than normal, its situation has caught the attention of the area’s congressman.
Jul 11, 2012
| WLFI
Rokita asks for alternative to lowering water levels in Lake Freeman
Issues: Economy and Jobs
U.S. Representative Todd Rokita is urging the Department of Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to reconsider its decision on a Monticello hydroelectric dam.
Jul 2, 2012
| Franklin Community Schools
FCS Employees Meet Indiana Representative Todd Rokita
Issues: Education
While in Washington, DC receiving the Schools to Watch award, Dr. Clendening, Mrs. Pam Millikan and four FCMS teachers had the opportunity to meet with Indiana Representative Todd Rokita. Franklin Community Middle School was named a Schools to Watch recipient earlier this year.
Jul 1, 2012
| Evansville Courier & Press
LEGISLATIVE NOTEBOOK: Indiana benefits from revised federal transportation bill
Issues: Transportation
Indiana's delegation praised the new 27-month transportation funding bill that Congress approved Friday, and for good reason: They secured changes that got the state an extra $42 million per year.
Jun 28, 2012
| Labor Pains
Union Leaders Favor Raising Their Own Coffers Over Raising Salaries of Deserving Employees
Issues: Economy and Jobs
If you’re in a union, good luck getting one. Chances are your union contract is one of the 80 percent that do not allow individual workers to receive merit-based pay increases.
Jun 27, 2012
| http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/304079/helping-workers-raise-themselves-michael-g-franc
Helping Workers RAISE Themselves
Issues: Economy and Jobs
How better to encourage Lincoln’s “true system” of upward mobility than by allowing hard-working employees to receive pay raises and spot bonuses when they deserve them? That, in a nutshell, is the philosophy behind the RAISE (Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees) Act. It would lift the restrictions that bar employers subject to collective-bargaining agreements from rewarding their best workers with pay increases or bonuses based...
Jun 19, 2012
| New York Times
The Court Should Strike It All Down
Issues: Health
Here’s a quick checklist of the 10 worst things that will be left in the law if the Supreme Court voids only the individual and Medicaid mandates.
Jun 14, 2012
| Crawfordsville Journal Review
Rokita outlines national debt issues
U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita spoke to the Crawfordsville Rotary Club Wednesday afternoon at the Quality Inn about the growing national debt. He provided detailed statistics and potential solutions to the growing debt problem.
Jun 13, 2012
| Red State
Why Stifle Employers from Offering Raises?
Issues: Economy and Jobs
When observing the chaos that big union bosses have interleaved into the labor market, you instinctively think of the above-market wages that are forced upon employers (and taxpayers, in the case of public-sector unions) as a result of the monopolistic collective bargaining contracts. However, what is even more deleterious is the limitation on paying individual workers more than their contract dictates.
