Week In Review
Every Member of Congress who gets elected has a decision to make....do they want to put people first or politics first? Read this blog to find out which one some Members chose this week:
To put it simply, if I wouldn’t put it in the bathtub with my kids, I don’t want it in our waterways. So whether it's runoff from agriculture or pollution from septic tanks, we need to stop it at the source. Check out this week's video for more on the progress we are making...and more!
This week the new South Florida Water Management District board members officially took their seats and the Army Corps continued discharging to our coast. Keep reading to find out what this means for our communities.
This week we made some GREAT progress in a number of important areas...but, if I’m being honest, it was also an incredibly frustrating week. Keep reading to learn why.
There’s no doubt about it: our entire way of life is tied to preserving public land and protecting our environment. Read this week's blog to learn about the progress we are making!
Did you know that the Department of Veterans Affairs has been performing extremely painful and distressing research experiments on dogs? This week I helped introduce a new bill called the PUPPERS Act to put an end to these terrible, abusive tests once and for all.
This week the Army Corps of Engineers held their first three public planning meetings on the new proposed Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual. Read this blog to learn more on how you can participate.
Last year I passed legislation to force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to redo the Lake Okeechobee Regulation Schedule (LORS) that determines when toxic discharges from Lake O are sent into our community. That rewrite process starts now with a chance to make our community’s voice heard! Learn more:
This week, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works sent us an update on the Southern Storage Reservoir project, and it had some good news in it that I’d like to share with you.
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