Honorable Bob Gibbs
United States Representative, Ohio, Republican
Representative Gibbs, of the Eighteenth District of Ohio, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. (In the incoming 113th Congress, he will represent the newly drawn Seventh District.) He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2003 to 2009 and in the Ohio Senate from 2009 to 2010. He sits on the Agriculture Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment. The following is from the September 20, 2012, House floor debate on H.R. 3409, the Stop the War on Coal Act. I rise in…