WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) led a letter to former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry requesting all private correspondence with former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Jarif during the Trump Administration and accused Mr. Kerry of likely violating the Logan Act. Rep. Waltz was joined by U.S. Congressmen Byron Donalds (FL-19), Brian Mast (FL-21)... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) pressed Biden Administration National Security and Intelligence Officials on President Biden’s classified documents, the threat of al-Qaeda, our energy policy fueling Russia’s war chest, Hamas, and universities facilitating domestic terrorism during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing. Witnesses included Direc... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, U.S. Congressmen Mike Waltz (FL-06), Ro Khanna (CA-17), and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul (TX-10) led a bipartisan letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Linda Thomas-Greenfield requesting the State Department to continue advocating for the release of arbitrarily detained individ... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) sent a letter to President Joe Biden questioning his administration’s announcement of a U.S. military operation to establish a temporary port off the coast of Gaza to provide additional aid to Palestinians and laid out concerns over how American taxpayer funded aid will be distributed to an area controlled by Hamas terrorists. In his... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-06) announced his invitation of Gold Star Mother Paula Knauss Selph to be his guest for the State of the Union. Paula’s son, Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Christian Knauss, was one of the 13 American servicemembers killed in the ISIS-K terrorist attack at Abbey Gate during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. “It has been over two ... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, U.S. Congressman, and Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, Mike Waltz (FL-06) pressed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on taking accountability for his unannounced absence and failure to communicate with the Commander in Chief in a timely manner about his recent hospitalization during a House Armed Services Committee hearing. Watch the fu... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, U.S. Congressmen Mike Waltz (FL-06) and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) introduced the bipartisan Contract Our Veterans Act in the House to set goals for the U.S. Department of Defense to increase contracts with small, veteran-owned businesses. “It is a win-win scenario for both our Department of Defense and veteran-owned small businesses to work together,” said Waltz. “Not o... Read More »
Our NATO allies are “eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defense budgets.” You might think this is a line from one of former President Donald Trump’s stump speeches decrying the majority of NATO members’ continual failure to meet their defense spending commitment of 2% GDP. But this was a direct warning from then-Obama Secretary of Defe... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) questioned former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on the failure of the Biden Administration to uphold the Doha Agreement during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. Watch the full exchange here. “Many years of this painful episode in our history but that I would say to our Gold Star Fa... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, President Joseph Biden signed into law the bipartisan Moving American's Privacy Protection Act (MAPPA), introduced by U.S. Congressmen Mike Waltz (FL-06) and Bill Pascrell (NJ-9), to require U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to remove personally identifiable information (PII), which includes Social Security and passport numbers, from cargo manifests before publ... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-06) and Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) introduced the bipartisan Protecting the Families of our Fallen Patriots Act in the House to ensure Gold Star families receive the retirement benefits they are entitled to. “The surviving spouses of our fallen patriots should be allowed to provide for their young children without the wor... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, U.S. Congressman and Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness Mike Waltz (FL-06) pressed Defense Department officials on taking accountability for the aging and dilapidated barracks and housing on military bases across the country. Watch the full exchange here. “We have, by my count, five hundred installations, five hundred thousand buildings,... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-06) joined the Heritage Foundation alongside Allison Center for National Security, Senior Research Fellow Brent Sadler to examine whether America’s Navy is equipped to protect and defend the nation against communist China and what must be done to reverse our Navy’s decline. Watch the full exchange here. Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-06) sent a letter to Commissioner Robert Califf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to question the telework policies at the FDA, which have minimized the operational standards for approving critical drugs and therapeutics. “It has been four years since the pandemic hit our country yet a number of federal agencies that ado... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-06) and Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) sent a letter to President Biden urging him to strengthen the United States’ maritime power at a moment when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is extending its influence on the South China Sea and the Houthis are attacking shipping in the Red Sea. Waltz and Kelly were joined a group of 17 bipartisan... Read More »