I'm excited to share with you two bills that we've passed to make progress on environmental issues facing our community:First, we passed the Strengthening Coastal Communities Act to help protect and...
Week In Review: November 9 – 15 | Saluting Our Veterans
This was a truly amazing veterans day. To all our veterans I say: thank you to every single one of you for putting on that uniform and going out there, putting your life on the line for someone...
Week In Review: September 21 – 27 | Permanently Lower Taxes
The tax cuts that we passed last year have empowered people to keep more of the money they earn and have put our economy on an upwards trajectory. We've seen more jobs, bigger paychecks and...
Week In Review: September 7 – 13 | House Authorizes EAA Reservoir
This was a big week for our community and the headliner is that the House of Representatives passed a bill to authorize the EAA Southern Storage Reservoir. This reservoir has been one of my top...
Week In Review: August 31 – September 6 | Prioritizing Health and Safety
Right now the priorities managing discharges from Lake Okeechobee prioritize special interests and everybody else while ignoring the Treasure Coast and the west coast. We're being taken advantage of...
Week In Review: July 20 – July 26 | Demanding Action For Our Water
This week water management officials tried to justify the discharges as being in the best interest of human health and safety. They seem to have forgotten, again, about the millions of people east...
Week In Review: July 13 – July 19 | Demanding Real Change
This week, the Army Corps testified before my subcommittee on the Transportation and Infrastructure committee, which gave me a chance to put them on the record about the water management decisions...
Week In Review: July 6 – July 12 | The War for Our Water
We are in a war for our water - for the health and safety of our families, our environment and our local economy.War is one thing that I can speak about very well. In any war there are many battles....
Week In Review: June 22 – June 28 | Fighting for Clean Water
While most kids around the country are enjoying their summer out on the beach, or the lake, or going fishing, kids in our community are going out there and fighting for clean water. These are kids...