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"Congress should pass this commonsense measure to use seized drug money to staunch the flow of drugs and violence into our communities.”

The state of Florida continues to be a leading voice in the fight to protect farmers from Mexican competition as three members of the Florida delegation, Democrat Al Lawson and Republicans Vern Buchanan and Marco Rubio have introduced the “Defending Domestic Produce Production Act,” which eases certain thresholds that would allow sunshine state farmers to […]

The President was busy at work this week signing a number of bills into law, and one of them was a bipartisan proposal from two congressman, Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Alcee Hastings. What the “Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act” was introduced to do is ban the slaughter of dogs and cats for […]

The focus of the committee will be to make the individual tax cuts “permanent long term” and to ...

Big Sugar has been criticized recently in the upcoming mid-term elections with Congressman DeSantis calling Florida Agricultural Commissioner Adam Putnam the "errand boy" for U.S. Sugar, but now Democrat Dave Shapiro is criticizing Vern Buchanan as someone that will not do anything to protect the environment. In a statement, Shapiro commented that "Florida’s water, wildlife, […]

Incumbent Congressman Vern Buchanan is facing opposition from Democrat David Shapiro who’s looking to represent Florida’s 16th congressional district. Shapiro’s so far posed himself as a candidate that’s seeking “a full ban on weapons of war.” However, a look into his financial disclosure shows that the candidate might be hypocritical. With the new personal finance […]

Republican Representative Vern Buchanan is calling for a congressional investigation to be made into VA nursing homes after reports were released showing that many of the homes suffer from misconduct and neglect. In a letter written to the heads of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and the U.S. House, he explained that "Some of the […]

It what appears to be a strategic move to help Republicans in this fall’s mid-term elections, Buchanan said that the tax policy committee he chairs, is “actively working to produce somewhat of a product before August,” and hopes to get a bill for members to vote on “sometime in September.”

Republicans still feel optimistic about the 2018 mid-term elections.

As expected, Democrats all frowned on the speech, pointing out what he didn’t say and did not give any praise for what he did say.