WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Val Demings, D-Florida, issued the following news release on July 16: Yesterday, Rep. Demings' resolution calling for increased diversity in American media was reviewed and passed by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, bringing it one step closer to law. Co-leading the resolution is Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R-PR) in the U.S. House, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in the U.S. Senate. Said Rep. Demings, "America is the grea  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Florida, issued the following news release on July 15: U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (FL-26), Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, voted to pass the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) through the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee after successfully advocating to remove the "new start" requirement that was delaying the construction of the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir - a crucial part of  more

MIAMI, Florida, July 17 -- Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Florida, issued the following news release: U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (FL-26), member of the Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee, Chair of the Women's Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the first South American-born member of Congress, announced her office received responses to a letter she sent to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) over a year ago regarding the Homestead detention facility. The admini  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Florida, issued the following statement after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that it has selected the University of Miami to host the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies: This selection comes with an award of up to $310 million dollars over the course of five years. * * * "I am excited to learn that the NOAA has chosen the University of Miami to host the CIMAS and entrusted it with such a generous  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. W. Greg Steube, R-Florida, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) joined colleagues in sending a letter to President Donald Trump encouraging his efforts to restrict TikTok and other social media sites linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from accessing U.S. markets. "Using apps like TikTok to collect American data and violate our privacy and safety is just another tactic the Chinese Communist Party uses to spy on our citi  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Florida, issued the following op-ed, published in Time Magazine: America is witnessing one of the most difficult times in our country's history. With a global pandemic still surging across our nation and with the national unemployment rate spiking at 14.7 percent and the youth unemployment rate at 25.3 percent - colossal losses not seen since the Great Depression - Americans are looking for work and for new opportunities. In this difficult moment, A  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, issued the following statement: Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) issued a statement on Donald Trump's failure to address the deadly surge in coronavirus cases and invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) to provide adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers and vulnerable communities. * * * "As coronavirus cases and deaths in the United States surge and California, Florida, and Texas emerge as the deadly epice  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, issued the following statement on her intent to ensure states that refuse to implement mask requirements don't receive federal assistance payments: "In the last two weeks, 41 states saw an increase in coronavirus cases, with a total of 3.5 million infected nationwide. "California, Florida and New York each topped 300,000 cases, and Texas will soon follow. "We've seen 60,000 new cases in five of the last six days. We're failing to c  more