{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://rokita.house.gov/editorial/rokita-report-11-1-13", "Rokita Report 11-1-13", "2013-11-05", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "IN", "Todd Rokita", "R000592", "rokita.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Dear Friend,\nThank you for the opportunity to update you on the work of the 113th Congress. I trust this finds you and your family well.\nFor daily updates, please take a moment to \"Like\" my Facebook\u00a0page by clicking here\u00a0\u00a0or follow me on Twitter if you prefer\u00a0\u00a0@ToddRokita.\n\u00a0\n  \u00a0In this week's Rokita Report\n Rokita Readings - The Myth of Government Default\nObamaCare Update\u00a0- Millions Can't Keep Their Insurance\nServing Our Veterans\nStanding with Hoosier Steelworkers\nLou Dobbs on Friday Night, WRTV Indianapolis This Week w/Rafael Sanchez on Sunday AM\n   Rokita ReadingsA clickable offering of books and articles that I've read recently and highly recommend, as we strive together to \"Keep the Republic.\"\nFeatured in this week's Rokita Readings is a column I recently read by David Rivkin and Lee Casey titled \"The Myth of Government Default.\"\nRivkin and Casey's column provide a more thorough explanation of exactly what the debate over debt ceiling and ultimately default really entails. During the debt ceiling debate, the President lead an effort to use the threat of a \u201cdefault\u201d on our debt to obscure the fundamental truth of our debts, which is that we take in $200 billion per month, but spend only $21 billion on our debt.\u00a0 Yet every month we still add over $100 billion more to our debt.\u00a0\u00a0\nIt is dishonest to continue to promise Americans that our federal government will provide them with money and benefits that we do not actually have.\u00a0 By definition of the word, we will not default, despite what politicians of both parties were saying.\u00a0 We can pay our creditors.\u00a0 What we wouldn't have money to pay for EVERYTHING we promised to give ourselves, an entirely different question.\u00a0 And that is the point - it is immoral to continue to borrow money and stick our children with the bill for things we are not willing or able to actually pay for.\n\u00a0\n  Affordable Care Act - Insidious I Tell You\nWhile a few weeks ago, I was ridiculed in the mainstream media for calling the law one of the most insidious ever created (see definition here), this week\u00a0the White House Press Secretary\u00a0finally\u00a0fessed up to\u00a0one of the four main lies of ObamaCare.\u00a0 The President has said on many occasions,\"if you like your health plan, you can keep it.\"\u00a0 As we now know,\u00a0that is not true.\u00a0 Hundreds of thousands of Americans are receiving cancellation of policy notices that effectively end their plans as they know it.\u00a0 While the opportunity to get a different plan is available, in most cases they are paying more and receiving services they did not ask for.\u00a0\u00a0\nIn a\u00a0NBC News story this week, it was estimated that\u00a050-75%\u00a0of the 14 million consumers on individually-purchased plans should expect a cancellation notice in coming weeks.\nEven worse, the same report stated that the Obama Administration had\u00a0known for three years that many Americans would lose the health care plan\u00a0they had under ObamaCare.\u00a0 Why did the President continue to lie about ObamaCare in the years to follow?\nIn an effort to make Hoosiers voices heard loud and clear in Washington, I am asking\u00a0you to\u00a0send me copies of\u00a0your cancellation notices\u00a0via mail, fax, email, or social media.\u00a0 Note: Submissions of personal information should be redacted or \u201cblacked out.\u201d\nThis isn't the last ObamaCare lie\u00a0that the Obama Administration will need to finally admit to.\u00a0\u00a0We must\u00a0continue to sound the alarm on the\u00a0insidious\u00a0nature of ObamaCare \u2013 a law that is continuing to prove it was intentionally something other than what was promised.\u00a0 Not only\u00a0have Americans been forced off the insurance plans they were happy with, we\u00a0have been lied to in several ways.\nThe Four Lies of ObamaCare\u00a0  Lie #1 \u2013 Consumers will be Empowered\u00a0  Lie #2 \u2013 Americans can Keep Their Health Care\u00a0  Lie #3 \u2013 Health Care will be More Affordable\u00a0  Lie #4 \u2013 The Law will Reduce the National Debt\nLearn more about the four lies of ObamaCare and the insidious nature of the law\u00a0here.\n  Serving Our Veterans\nThis week, the House considered several important pieces of legislation aimed at helping our veterans and improving the Department of Veterans Affairs.\nMany of these bills are aimed at improving service and access to benefits are veterans have earned.\u00a0 I encourage you to look into these bills further by clicking the links above or visiting the\u00a0House Committee on Veterans Affairs website.\u00a0\nIf you or someone you know is experiencing trouble with VA claims, please contact my Danville office via phone (317-718-0404) or\u00a0e-mail\u00a0for immediate assistance.\u00a0 Assisting veterans is an important case work function of my office\u2019s services.\n  Standing With\u00a0Hoosier Steelworkers - Free Trade Should Mean Playing by the Same Rules that All Parties Agreed to\nOn Thursday, I offered testimony before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on the antidumping pricing rules\u00a0applied to\u00a0foreign steel being imported into our country.\n\u00a0Rep. Rokita with Steelworkers at the ITC Hearing\nMy testimony supported the continuation of these tariffs to ensure our steelworkers receive fairness in the global marketplace.\u00a0 While the trade agreements agreed to by the countries this tariff applies to is fair, many are ignoring the rules and it is leaving our steelworkers at an unfair advantage.\nAs someone that grew up in Northwest Indiana, I understand the importance of steel to our Hoosier economy.\u00a0 Over half of my immediate and extended family rely directly or indirectly on the steel industry.\u00a0 Throughout my life, I have seen firsthand the trials, as well as the benefits of working in the industry.\n\u00a0Rep. Rokita and Nucor CEO, John Ferriola, a former VP and GM of the Crawfordsville plant 1998-2001\nToday, the 4th District is home to two of the nation's largest steel producers - Nucor Steel Indiana in Crawfordsville and Steel Dynamics Inc. in Pittsboro.\u00a0 Both are critical to the continued success of the American steel industry and we must ensure a fair marketplace for their products.\nFor further information on the hearing and the antidumping hot steel issue, you can read my press release that followed the hearing\u00a0here.\n  Catch me tonight on Fox Business Network when I join\u00a0Lou Dobbs\u00a0to talk about ObamaCare and the American Health Care Reform Act at 7:00 pm ET.\nYou can also catch me this Sunday morning on WRTV 6 in Indianapolis when I sit down with Rafael Sanchez on\u00a0Indianapolis This Week\u00a0at 7:30 am (and a replay at 5:00 pm).\n  Thank you for your continued interest in Congress and for supporting my efforts in Washington. Take care.\u00a0\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\tSincerely,\u00a0  \u00a0  Todd Rokita", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://rokita.house.gov/editorial/rokita-report-11-1-13"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7620800752192736, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}