WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, U.S. Congressmen Mike Waltz (FL-06) and Darren Soto (FL-09) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Jackie Robinson Ballpark Commemorative Site Act to honor the location where Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and played his first professional game. Under this legislation, the Jackie Robinson Ballpark and home the Daytona Tortugas, would be designated as a National... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, U.S. Congressmen Mike Waltz (FL-06) and Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) introduced bipartisan legislation in the House to help keep more Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) programs open and grow the program nationwide. “Our JROTC programs help promote civic participation amongst our youth and help address the recruitment shortfalls our military fac... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) and Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability James Comer (KY-1) sent a letter to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrator (NOAA) Richard Spinrad expressing their concern over the proposed expanded habitat protections for the Rice and North Atlantic right whales will jeopardize the safety of vessels and hinder commer... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability passed the FEHB Protection Act of 2024, introduced by U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-06) to stop fraud within the largest employer-sponsored health insurance program in the country – the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program. The FEHB Protection Act of 2024 codifies recommendations from the Governm... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) pressed Former of Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff General (Ret.) Mark Milley and Former Commander of U.S. Central Command General (Ret.) Kenneth McKenzie Jr. for answers on the Biden Administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and the killing of thirteen service men and women at Abbey Gate during a House Foreign Affairs ... Read More »
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 »
