Monday, January 5, 2015

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Tom Latham, Iowa's 3rd Congressional District


  Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Text source:   League of Conservative Voters

Latham retired after serving 10 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Recommended reading for Rep. Latham and his central and southwestern Iowa constituents.

Climate Change Consequences for Agriculture in Iowa.  (Ag Marketing  Resource Center, Fall 2011)

No Friend to the Environment dishonor roll.

Alabama Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives.   (Their anti-environmentalism can be summed up in one word:  coal.  Which is odd, since Alabama contributes a mere 1.9% of U.S. production, good enough for an overall ranking of 13.  The state's peak year of production:  1990)  
Alaska Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
  • At-large District.  Don Young (R).   Ridiculed environmentalists as a “self-centered bunch of waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots.....not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.” 
 Arizona Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Arkansas Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
California Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Colorado Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
No House Republicans hail from Connecticut and Delaware. 
Florida Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Georgia Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Idaho Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Illinois Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Indiana Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Iowa Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
  • 3rd District.  Tom Latham (R).    Earned a 8% lifetime score from the League of Conservative Voters in his 20 years of Congressional service.

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