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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.

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Sep 8, 2025

Sir, I believe that you could be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism.

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Sep 8, 2025

President Trump, sir, the same God who saved you from death in Pennsylvania one year ago, and who put you back in the Oval Office against all odds, is the same God almighty who millions and millions are begging to for some type of dignity…

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Sep 4, 2025

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.

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Sep 4, 2025

Entire nations have been destroyed and millions of lives shattered, including many in my own community who fled its brutality.

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Jul 15, 2025

They did break the law. They are illegals or undocumented. But they have been here for more than five years, contributing to the economy. Those people, someone gave them a job, and they are needed because we need hands in order to continue…

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Jul 15, 2025

We have 10 million people or more working in construction, hospitality, agriculture, dairy, fisheries, slaughterhouses who are undocumented but are not criminals.

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Jun 27, 2025

President Trump himself has acknowledged what so many of us already know: longtime workers, many of whom have built their lives in this country, are being taken away.

newsweek.com
Apr 28, 2025

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…

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Dec 6, 2024

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…

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Dec 6, 2024

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…

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Jun 26, 2024

Madam Chair, on Roll Call No. 285, I mistakenly voted Aye when I intended to vote NO.

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