Bob Latta, known as a mild-mannered conservative in his rural western Ohio district, is using his perch in Washington to turbocharge broadband access and close the digital divide for families. Latta frequently warns about government overreach on internet regulation and has teamed up with colleagues on federal responses to fast-developing technologies such as self-driving cars, robocalls, and cybersecurity. Before politics, he was in private law practice and then went into banking.

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