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Today I rise to celebrate August 4 as Coast Guard Day, marking the service's founding by Alexander Hamilton in 1790. We are very grateful for the brave men and women of the United States Coast Guard who selflessly serve America, both at…
I thank Chairman Pallone for his leadership on this important legislation, and I thank the ranking member. The American people are fed up with spam calls. They are predatory, incessant, and an invasion of privacy. We need a comprehensive…
As a Floridian, space exploration both interests and excites me. It is part of our state's culture and our economy.
I really would love to see us depoliticizing climate change so that all of you can spend your time discussing which of these solutions we're going to implement and how.
Unfortunately, the Administration proposed cuts to the Solar Office of more than 70 percent and justified those cuts by saying that the office is conducting activities that can and should be carried out by the private sector.
It's no secret I'm really excited about solar energy, as is my colleague, Representative Waltz, to help our nation and frankly the world transition to a clean energy economy.
I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. Stevens) for her incredible leadership on an issue we should all be able to agree upon: protecting all of God's creatures, great and small. When Congress creates laws, we intend for them to be…
I want to thank my colleague from Florida, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, for her leadership on this important issue and for working with me and the Florida delegation to include banning drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico in…
I stand before you 2 days before the third anniversary of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, to tell this body, the people's House, that we have work to do. The Pulse shooting shook us all to our core, and for so…
I thank Chairman Engel for yielding me the time. I rise in strong support of the Climate Action Now Act written by my dear friend and the chairwoman of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, Kathy Castor. We are both blessed to…
That does not appear to be fair or equitable, going after the poor while letting the very wealthy off the hook.
This clearly indicates a policy shift of some sort. Cracking down on people who have little, and going easier on people who are doing very, very well.
The IRS must balance tax compliance activities against the rights of taxpayers to receive fair and equitable treatment.
Do you agree that minority, immigrant, low-income, and rural communities tend to be some of the most difficult to count, but that those communities often have the most at stake in the census since the data is used to distribute federal…
What I am worried about are the people I work for, the American people, and the people you work for, sir.
This budget proposal also potentially undermines human exploration of deep space.
Do you agree that the key to an accurate and successful census is making sure every single person is, in fact, counted?
Despite the administration's rhetoric about leading in space... the fiscal year 2020 budget request proposes to reduce NASA's funding by almost half a billion dollars.
On the question of obstruction of justice, you stated in your March 24th letter that the Mueller report does not exonerate the President.
I thank my friend, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Brown), for his leadership on this issue. Souls to the Polls is a bedrock of Florida elections. For my colleagues who may be unfamiliar, minority communities, particularly African…
Florida, where I live, which is home to the fourth-largest barrier reef in the world, the Florida Keys reef system, is already experiencing an unprecedented coral disease outbreak.
Minority-owned businesses are the bedrock of that community, businesses like Chief's Creole Cafe on 22nd Street.
My home State of Florida recently legalized medical marijuana overwhelmingly at the ballot box.
One of the proposals that we have in this budget is to go towards a block grant so that States would have more of an opportunity to design their programs to ensure that the populations that Medicaid was established for get the care that…
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