Entire nations have been destroyed and millions of lives shattered, including many in my own community who fled its brutality.
María Elvira Salazar
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María Elvira Salazar is a U.S. Representative for Florida's 27th congressional district, having taken office on January 3, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she has a background in journalism and media, which informs her political communication style. Salazar has been vocal about her opposition to socialism, drawing on her family's experiences fleeing Cuba. She emphasizes the importance of freedom and democracy in her public statements and legislative priorities.
History is clear: from Stalin’s gulags and Cambodia’s killing fields to Castro’s firing squads in Havana, socialism has always ended in misery, suffering, and death.
Mr. Speaker, every generation of Congress faces moments that test our commitment to justice, and today is one of those moments. I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on S. 146, the TAKE IT DOWN Act. The Senate has already done…
The Trump administration should take this under consideration and not punish them for Biden’s mistakes.
Trump is cleaning up Biden’s political mess, and the legal limbo the Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans are facing is entirely Biden’s fault.
I believe they should have the ability to see their applications out to rectify their legal status.
Communists are in the business of power. It only takes one generation to believe their false promises and we lose everything. We cannot misinform our children. Knowledge is power. Churchill said that by studying history, ``the farther…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge the passage of my bill, H.R. 5349, the Crucial Communism Teaching Act. My legislation will develop a curriculum on the real, brutal history of communism and provide States with the resources to implement…
Madam Chair, on Roll Call No. 285, I mistakenly voted Aye when I intended to vote NO.
Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge the passage of my bill, the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act. Anti-Semitism has always been a tragic feature of world history, but there was no greater display of…





