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I am working with Senator Gayle Harrell and Representative Toby Overdorf to convince the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to eliminate regulatory discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the St. Lucie.
Fully funding Everglades Restoration as part of this package would create more than 65,000 jobs, protect the environment and improve public health for Floridians and the state's annual 130 million visitors.
Our bill to find a way to stop water pollution at the source just passed the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee! It will increase funding for important projects to prevent water pollution.
Nobody should lack access to clean and safe water, but sadly, that’s the reality for people in our community nearly every summer when the Army Corps dumps toxic water on us.
Whether its runoff from agriculture, pollution from septic tanks, herbicides like glyphosate or any other kind of water pollution, our top priority needs to be stopping it at the source. That’s why I just helped introduce a bipartisan bill to combat water pollution called the Local Water Protection Act.
We have a full-blown crisis at our southern border. So, what is Congress doing to address this border crisis? Two pieces of legislation that would provide even more incentive to cross the border illegally.
My bill would support all countries withholding payments on debts owed to China until the world recovers the amount spent in response to the pandemic.
Thanks to the release schedule being up for a once-in-a-decade rewrite, we have an opportunity—NOW—to #StopTheDischarges permanently.
The discharge of toxic water into our community is unnecessary and always has been. The Army Corps’ own modeling data proves it.
This week the House of Representatives passed Speaker Pelosi's latest power grab, H.R. 1. I break it all down in this week's Week in Review video.