Charlie Crist

The threat that offshore drilling poses to our oceans and coastal communities is not worth the risk in my opinion.

I thank the chairman and the ranking member for their leadership and bipartisanship on this bill. Americans who watched 60 Minutes last weekend or who read the Tampa Bay Times were shocked by serious airline safety concerns--specifically…

Friday marks the eighth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. I was Governor of Florida at the time. I remember the tar balls. I remember them coming up on our beautiful beaches--as the ambassador does…

I would like to thank Ranking Member Waters for her steadfast leadership. While I have great respect for the gentleman from Minnesota, I rise in strong opposition to this bill before us today. I feel so lucky and fortunate to represent…

I want to thank the ranking member for her leadership. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this bill. We must get flood insurance right, and that starts with affordability. If families can't afford insurance, they simply will…

I continue to be deeply troubled by the number of unfilled positions at the National Weather Service and fatigued employees working overtime to compensate for these vacancies.

With nearly unanimous scientific consensus that man-made climate change is, in fact, real, how can we proactively protect our businesses?

I thank the ranking member for her strong leadership in this fight against the ``Wrong'' CHOICE Act. The bill before us is broken. I was Governor of Florida when the financial crisis and foreclosure crisis rolled through my State like a…

This is a terrible bill. This bill will cut 24 million Americans out of health insurance. This bill will gut Planned Parenthood in the first year, affecting women across the country. And it will cut $850 billion out of Medicaid hurting the…

The financial crisis took $17 trillion of wealth away from the American people, from families, from children, from grandparents. I never want to see that happen again ever.

Democrats are united under her leadership to protect all Americans from the wrong choice act and having to relive one of the worst financial crises in our Nation's history.

As Governor of Florida, which, as you know, was ground zero for the foreclosure crisis, I witnessed firsthand how the policies that led up to the crisis hurt families, hurt my neighbors, hurt my friends in my hometown of St. Petersburg.

The wrong choice act ought to be defeated, and it is going to affect real people in a real way.

As vice chair of the Seniors Task Force, I rise in strong defense of Social Security. Recent reports that the White House is considering defunding Social Security and cutting Social Security disability benefits are troubling, to say the…

This bill we are talking about takes about $880 billion out of Medicaid. Medicaid is for the poor, and Medicaid is for the disabled. We are in Lent. It is supposed to be the holiest time. I want to read to you from Matthew 25, verse 45…

The funding you provide for the Army Corps is critical in delivering the resources Pinellas County needs for our beaches.

It will set the standard for public-private partnership by turning a mere 20 percent of Federal stake in the project into a $55 million economic development initiative that will create 8,000 jobs for our region.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 11. ____________________

If I'm a RINO, then so is Ronald Reagan. I mean, I'm a less taxing, less spending, less government, more freedom kind of guy.

Is it a case of not being Republican enough? We will show you why Florida's Republican governor, Charlie Crist, is now in danger of losing his race for U.S. senator in the primary to the formerly largely unknown Marco Rubio.

Our voters should not be disenfranchised, their vote should be respected and the delegates should be seated.

I expect that cooler heads will prevail, that the respect for the ballot box, for the people's voice, that, in fact, democracy should be respected and revered.

Rules made by party bosses in Washington aren't really important to the people in Florida.

It is reprehensible that anyone would seek to silence the voices.

The power of the people is more important than the power of party bosses.