{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://rokita.house.gov/editorial/rokita-report-12-23-13", "Rokita Report 12-23-13", "2013-12-23", "2013", "2013-12", "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  or follow me on Twitter if you prefer  @ToddRokita.\n\u00a0\n  \u00a0In this week's Rokita Report\n Putting Children First - Visit to Indiana Math& Science Academy\u00a0\nListening to Business, Fighting Red Tape - Indiana Motor Truck Association\nEngaging the Next Generation on our Debt - Harvard Institute of Politics\nObamaCare - Lie of the Year - Sunday Interview on Fox News\n \u00a0\n  Putting Children First - My Visit to the Indiana Math& Science Academy\nIn my role as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, I visit schools throughout Indiana.\u00a0 This Thursday, I visited with students and teachers at the\u00a0Indiana Math& Science Academy (IMSA) - North.\u00a0\u00a0\nThe IMSA charter schools are free K-12 college prep schools that focus on math, science, and technology -\u00a0the very subjects and skill sets that will be required of our students in the global marketplace they will be entering.\nIMSA is practicing many of the same tenets that drove the Student Success Act - the No Child Left Behind rewrite that I introduced and led to passage in the House earlier this year as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.\u00a0 The\u00a0Student Success Act prioritizes the success of students by putting those closest to the children\u00a0in\u00a0direct guidance of their education - parents, teachers, and\u00a0local communities - not Washington bureaucrats.\nInnovative education models that prioritize each student's unique learning style\u00a0are leading the way to a brighter future for our young Hoosier students.\u00a0 I look forward to more school visits throughout 2014.\u00a0 \n  Listening to Business,\u00a0Fighting Red Tape - Indiana Motor Truck Association Directors' Meeting\n\t\t\t\t\tOn Tuesday, I was the guest speaker for the Indiana Motor Truck Association Board of Directors' Meeting.\nI updated the board members on the recent 2-year Ryan-Murray Budget, as well as transportation and logistics issues before Congress.\u00a0\u00a0\nAs many Rokita Report readers may know, many of the issues that impact our transportation and logistics companies very rarely come before Congress, and instead originate within the maze of federal bureaucracy.\u00a0\u00a0\nThousands of pages of rules and regulations are issued each year by agencies like the Department of Transportation that have a negative impact on Hoosier businesses and workers.\u00a0\u00a0\nThat is why, along with the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, we created the\u00a0Red Tape Rollback program to solicit input from Hoosier businesses, like our transportation companies, on arbitrary, senseless, and ultimately, costly regulations that are stopping economic growth in our state and killing much-needed jobs.\u00a0\u00a0\nLearn more about our Red Tape Rollback program and more on the 33 victories we've achieved since launching the program in 2011.\n\u00a0\n\u00a0\n  Engaging the Next Generation about our Debt\u00a0at\u00a0the Harvard Institute of Politics\n\u00a0\nOn Monday, I delivered my debt presentation at the Harvard University Institute of Politics\u00a0(IOP).\u00a0 IOP was founded in 1966 as a memorial to President Kennedy and educates undergraduate students in politics and public service careers.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nThis is the same debt presentation I've delivered all over Indiana and on the House floor (which you can watch on YouTube).\u00a0 You can also read a PDF copy of the presentation here.\nI enjoyed meeting the students there and discussing the debt that, if unaddressed, they, along\u00a0our children and grandchildren, stand to inherit.\u00a0\u00a0It is always a surprise to people what makes up the bulk of our federal\u00a0spending - social entitlement spending - and how large the problem really is.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\nThank you to IOP's director Trey Grayson for the invitation and\u00a0to the students who took time out during final exam week to engage on this important issue facing them and their future.\u00a0 I look forward to visiting additional campuses in the new year to deliver the debt presentation.\n  \n\"You Can Keep Your Plan\" - The Politifact \"Lie of the Year\" - ObamaCare Insurance Cancellations Continue\nIt\u00a0has been widely reported that\u00a0millions of Americans are being sent cancellation notices of their\u00a0insurance policies due to\u00a0ObamaCare.\u00a0 Just\u00a0last week, the nonpartisan political fact-finding site, Politifact.com ranked the President's claim that, \"if you like your health insurance plan, you can keep your plan,\" the \"Lie of the Year.\"\u00a0 This lie is one that he\u00a0reused time and again in selling\u00a0ObamaCare\u00a0and seeking reelection.\u00a0 Yet, cancellations keep arriving in mailboxes all over the country.\nYesterday, I appeared on Fox News America's News HQ to talk about the impact of ObamaCare and a better way forward - the American Health Care Reform Act.\u00a0 You can watch my interview with Erich Shawn here.\nIf you or someone you know has had a similar experiences due to ObamaCare,\u00a0please send me your\u00a0story, your\u00a0cancellation notice, or rate increase documents\u00a0at InsuranceCancellations@mail.house.gov.\u00a0 \u00a0\n  Thank you for your continued interest in Congress and for supporting my efforts in Washington. 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