Honorable Ralph Regula
United States Representative, Ohio, Republican
Representative Regula, of the Sixteenth District of Ohio, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1964 to 1966 and in the Ohio Senate from 1966 to 1972. He is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, where he chairs the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee. The following is from the October 2, 2003, House floor debate on an amendment to H.R. 2660, the 2004 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, to eliminate funding from the bill to implement the Labor…