WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2025: * * * Buchanan Introduces Two-Bill Package to Protect Children From Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation Today, Congressman Vern Buchanan, announced that he introduced two bills to help protect America's children from human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Buchanan and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz introduced the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prevention Training Act to help combat h  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Florida, issued the following news release: * * * CHAIRMAN CARLOS GIMENEZ COMBATS CCP PRESENCE IN THE AMERICAS WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Chairman Carlos Gimenez held the first hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security of the 119th Congress to assess the expanding influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Western Hemisphere. The CCP's strategic placement of ports and investments pose a  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Florida, issued the following news release: * * * Chairman Diaz-Balart Holds Oversight Briefing on Mexico's Water Treaty Violations and the Impact on Americans WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Appropriations National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee Chairman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) convened a bipartisan Member briefing today on Mexico's failure to meet its water delivery obligations to the United States under the 1944 W  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2025: * * * Chairman Mast, HFAC Members Meet with King and Crown Prince of Jordan Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast welcomed Jordan's King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Al-Hussein bin Abdullah to Capitol Hill for a meeting with committee members. During the meeting, Chairman Mast underscored the close friendship between the   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Rep. Scott Franklin, R-Florida, issued the following news release: * * * Franklin Reintroduces Bill to Protect Big Cypress National Preserve from Federal Government Overreach Congressman Scott Franklin reintroduced the Big Cypress National Preserve Protection Act to prevent the National Park Service (NPS) from ever managing or listing the Big Cypress National Preserve (the Preserve) as a wilderness area. While the Biden Administration announced the end of its harmful ma  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs released the following testimony by Talbert Cypress, chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, from a Feb. 5, 2025, hearing on the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act (H.R. 504): * * * Good morning, Chair Hurd, Ranking Member Leger-Fernandez, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I am Talbert H. Cypress, Chairman of the Miccosukee   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs released the following testimony by Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Florida, from a Feb. 5, 2025, hearing on the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act (H.R. 504): * * * Good morning - Thank you to Chairman Hurd and Ranking Member Leger-Fernandez for holding this hearing today and considering my legislation H.R. 504 - The Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act. For those of you who do not know me, I am Repre  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Florida, chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, issued the following opening statement on Feb. 11, 2025, at a hearing entitled "Modernizing American Health Care: Creating Healthy Options and Better Incentives": * * * As prepared for delivery. "Thank you to the witnesses for being here today to discuss a crucial issue before us, Modernizing American Health Care: Creating Healthy Options and Better Incentives. "Chronic diseases  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Florida, posted the following statement in the extensions of remarks section of the Congressional Record on Feb. 5, 2025: * * * Mr. Speaker, I rise today during Black History month with gratitude for the life of Commander Eunice Butts, her service to our country and Tampa Bay community. Commander Butts volunteered to serve America and shattered glass ceilings as an African American woman in the U.S. Air Force and National Guard during the Vietnam War.  more