{"id":4373,"date":"2012-04-06T10:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2012-04-06T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:01:29","slug":"just-another-busy-day-for-u-s-rep-todd-rokita-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2012\/04\/06\/just-another-busy-day-for-u-s-rep-todd-rokita-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another busy day for U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita &#039;92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just one day this week, Congressman<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/04\/Todd-Rokita.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4375\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/04\/Todd-Rokita-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/04\/Todd-Rokita-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/04\/Todd-Rokita.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a> Todd Rokita &#8217;92 met with employer and individual constituents in the greater Lafayette area to discuss employment, economic growth, and the future of both by day, and then met with fellow Republicans that evening.<\/p>\n<p>First, Todd visited a medical device company in the Purdue Research Park, focusing on concerns that the medical device excise tax, which is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2013, will make the entire medical device industry less competitive.\u00a0 After plant tours at other local businesses, Todd conducted a one-hour &#8220;Congress on Your Corner&#8221; session in West Lafayette, giving individuals the opportunity to address personal and business concerns, and later held an area\u00a0town hall meeting. \u00a0That evening, he emceed the Tippecanoe County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner.\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, he sits on the House Steering Committee, is a Member of the House Budget Committee, and serves on the House Education and Workforce Committee.\u00a0 He served as Indiana&#8217;s Secretary of State for two terms from 2002-2010.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Rokita will run unopposed in the Indiana Republican primary for Indiana 4<sup>th<\/sup> Congressional District on May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just one day this week, Congressman Todd Rokita &#8217;92 met with employer and individual constituents in the greater Lafayette area to discuss employment, economic growth, and the future of both by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}