"More than 1 million Floridians are directly employed by the tourism industry."
"Tourism is the lifeblood of the Florida economy."
"I think if it were up for sunset today, that many in this Congress would view and vote to take it down because of the mismanagement that is there."
"the implementation of this law might be 'a train wreck.'"
"Yes or no, do you believe you have such authority to shift funds between HHS accounts to cover expenses related to implementation of the health care law?"
"I don't think we can defend this country with that budget."
"I enlisted the assistance of Congressman Gus Bilirakis' office to resolve the issue."
"I think the technology obviously enables that notion of care at a distance in ways that are much more efficient..."
"I am honored, of course, to have the opportunity to represent Florida's Ninth--12th Congressional District--it is 12 now--on the committee."
"The EPA issued an America nutrient criteria for Florida to avoid litigation with environmental groups and, in the process, circumvented the State's reasonable and scientifically based efforts to addre..."
"I want to focus also on the regulation and the overlapping regulation or overregulation as well."