Congress

In comments to The Floridian, Representative Mike Haridopolos (R-FL) praised President Donald Trump's recent agreement on Greenland, calling the President an "amazing negotiator." While details about the agreement are currently unknown, Rep. Haridopolos noted that Trump's ambitions for Greenland are sound. "A year ago, I put out an editorial on the value of Greenland," Rep. […]

Representative Laurel Lee (R-FL) questioned former law enforcement officer Scott Dexter during a recent House Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee hearing on the Minnesota welfare fraud scandal. Dexter, according to his testimony, was part of a team attached to the Minnesota Department of Human Services to investigate fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program […]

House Democratic leadership spoke out against a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a closed-door caucus meeting, affirming that they will vote against it due to concerns about the Trump administration’s failure to check Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to sources who were present. "In the last 24 hours, we've […]

Representative Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) has introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation improving privatized housing for military families. Rep. Bilirakis's Military Occupancy Living Defense (MOLD) Act addresses the prevalence of mold, including toxic black mold, in military-provided housing on and around bases across the country. The bill ensures mandated independent inspections, improvements to enforceable health and safety regulations, […]

Republican candidate Michael Carbonara announced that he has raised $1.7 Million in campaign funds in his pursuit to unseat Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) in Florida’s hotly contested 25th Congressional District. "For far too long, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been a fixture in Washington, and she's done nothing to help working families struggling with inflation, […]

Representative Cory Mills (R-FL) is introducing a bill to rename the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to the "China Budget Office" to highlight its constant obstruction of President Donald Trump's agenda. As described in Rep. Mills' press release, the CBO's apparent obstructionism is not limited to President Trump. The Florida Republican argues that it has placed […]

Representative Laurel Lee (R-FL) has introduced bipartisan legislation establishing a universal "customer stay" rule to protect small businesses in patent litigation. In a press release, Rep. Lee explained that retailers and other end users, such as hospitals and pharmacies, are increasingly targeted in patent lawsuits for selling or using products they did not manufacture, such […]

Representative Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) has introduced bipartisan legislation expanding children's access to genomic sequencing treatments under Medicaid. Genomic sequencing is a method for examining a patient's full DNA or RNA sequence to detect rare diseases and genetic disorders, thereby dramatically reducing the time and cost required to diagnose such conditions accurately, often within days or […]

Representative Jimmy Patronis (R-FL) has introduced legislation repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to hold Big Tech accountable for their exposure of inappropriate material to minors. As The Floridian previously covered, Section 230 holds that social media companies are not legally accountable for user-posted content on their sites. However, an August 2024 Pennsylvania court […]

U.S. Senate Republicans voted 51-50 on Wednesday against a war powers resolution that would have restrained President Donald Trump from further use of military force in Venezuela without congressional authorization, after the president put pressure on fellow Republicans who had supported the measure. Last week, Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) joined Democrats […]

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that they will not comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in a Republican-led House Oversight Committee deposition related to the investigation involving the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter posted on social media, the Clintons criticized the House […]

Representative Neal Dunn (R-FL) has announced he will not seek reelection in the 2026 midterms, announcing, "The time has come to pass the torch to new conservative leaders." In a statement, Rep. Dunn said, "After much prayerful consideration and discussion with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election to the United States House […]

Representative Randy Fine (R-FL) has introduced legislation authorizing the annexation of Greenland, including provisions that allow the Danish territory to become an official state. President Donald Trump has made acquiring Greenland a goal of his second administration, arguing that the acquisition of the territory would secure the Arctic from China and Russia, countries he claims […]

Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) utterly excoriated Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for her "delusional" response to the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis in a recent appearance on Fox Business's Varney & Co. Rep. Omar had discussed the shooting on CNN's The Lead, calling it "unlawful" and any attempts […]

Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL) issued a statement praising President Donald Trump for negotiating a deal that prevents American companies from being subject to a global minimum corporate tax rate. As The Floridian reported last January, the Undertaxed Profit Rule was introduced as part of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Global Tax Deal, which […]

United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz appeared before the United Nations Security Council after the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, stressing that the United States is not at war with the country, that the Trump Administration's actions were lawful, and that Maduro's fraudulent reelection in 2024 was already declared illegitimate. Waltz repeated State Secretary Marco […]

Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) called out Democrats, including the 2026 gubernatorial candidates in Florida, for defending and staying silent about Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro after his recent capture by the U.S. military in a post to X (formerly Twitter). The post is a response to a statement by Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL), who said, "What […]

Representative Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) compared the recently uncovered Minnesota daycare fraud scandal to organized crime in a recent appearance on Fox Business's Varney & Co., adding that government collusion must have been a factor in its perpetration. Representative Mike Haridopolos (R-FL) initially made the comparison in a previous interview, where he called for the federal government […]