WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, issued the following news release: El Senador Rick Scott, junto con el Senador Marco Rubio y los Representantes Mario Diaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Michael Waltz, Neal Dunn, Byron Donalds y Carlos Gimenez escribieron una carta al Comite Nobel Noruego apoyando a la lider de la oposicion venezolana Maria Corina Machado como nominada al Premio Nobel de la Paz. En la carta, los miembros ilustran las notables contribuciones de Machado para rest  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Cory Mills, R-Florida, issued the following statement on remembering Abbey Gate, on Aug. 26, 2024 : * * * Today marks three years since the suicide bombing attack at Abbey Gate, which tragically claimed the lives of 13 U.S. service members. On August 26, 2021, a suicide bomber detonated a large explosive device near the Karzai International Airport gates, also injuring dozens of others who were desperately trying to flee Afghanistan. Despite numerous warnings and o  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: Today, Congressman Brian Mast (FL-21) sent a letter to Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Shawn Hamilton urging him to meet with opponents of the proposal to bulldoze Jonathan Dickinson State Park at a rally scheduled in Stuart at 2 pm on Tuesday, August 27, 2024. "I and nearly every member of our community are overwhelmingly opposed to building golf courses on this pub  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida, issued the following statement on Aug. 26, 2024: * * * Today, Congressman Brian Mast (FL-21) issued the following statement after joining President Donald Trump and other patriotic Americans at Arlington National Cemetery to mark the three-year anniversary of the Abbey Gate terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 13 U.S. service members. "I am both honored and saddened to join President Trump this morning to lay wreaths at Arlingt  more

STUART, Florida, Aug. 24 -- Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Brian Mast (FL-21) announced he will use Florida's Sunshine Law to request all internal documents and communications from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and its Acquisition and Restoration Council (ARC) regarding the proposed plan to bulldoze Jonathan Dickinson State Park. "We will be doing a public records request for relevant FDEP staff and the ARC members   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Brian Mast (FL-21), Florida Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, and state and local elected officials from the Treasure Coast and Palm Beach County sent a letter to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and its Acquisition and Restoration Council objecting to the rushed push to develop Jonathan Dickinson State Park. "The communities around Jonathan Dickinson State Park   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: Today, on the third anniversary of the horrific terrorist attack at Abbey Gate outside Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport that claimed the lives of 13 brave U.S. servicemembers, Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-26) and John Rutherford (FL-05) pay tribute by reintroducing the 13 Folds of Honor Act, which provides a script to be read during official or burial flag-folding cer  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, issued the following news release: Today, Senator Rick Scott, joined by Senator Marco Rubio and Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Michael Waltz, Neal Dunn, Byron Donalds and Carlos Gimenez wrote a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee supporting Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado as a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. In the letter, the members illustrate Machado's remarkable contributions to restoring democrati  more