{"id":44953,"date":"2015-01-22T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=44953"},"modified":"2015-01-22T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:55:11","slug":"leonard-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/leonard-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard to chair House Insurance Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Tom Leonard<!--more--><br \/>\nState Rep. Tom Leonard, R-DeWitt, will chair the House Insurance Committee in the 98th Legislature in addition to his floor leadership role as speaker pro tempore. In these positions Leonard will help to lead important floor discussions and committee deliberations on behalf of all Michigan residents and the 93rd House District.<br \/>\n\u201cInsurance reform has been a top priority of Republican leadership since I first took office in 2013,\u201d Leonard said. \u201cThe high costs of auto insurance especially are one issue I hear about often from local residents, and an issue that we plan to delve into and work toward solutions for.\u201d<br \/>\nAs committee chair Leonard will preside over debate, decide which bills are brought up for consideration, make rulings on procedure and announce the results of votes. Now in his second term in the House, he served as vice chair of the insurance committee last term.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m eager to pick up where we left off last term and continue to see our state improve,\u201d Leonard said. \u201cWe\u2019ve worked hard to rebuild our economy, and I look forward to continuing action on important policy changes that have the ability to make Michigan the best possible place to live for all residents.\u201d<br \/>\nThe central Michigan representative can be reached in Lansing by phone at 517-373-1778, toll-free at 877-859-8086, via email at <a href=\"mailto:TomLeonard@house.mi.gov\">TomLeonard@house.mi.gov<\/a> or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/RepLeonard.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RepLeonard.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Tom Leonard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}