By Phil Ammann on July 2, 2013 Each spring, young artists from each congressional district compete for the Congressional Art Competition, a visual art competition recognizing and encouraging creative talent. For 2013, Cole Jaques is the high school artist selected to represent Florida’s Congressional District 15, covering the northern parts of Hillsborough and Polk Counties. Jaques inked artwork titled “Daily Commute” will be on display in the Capitol for the next year. Jaques was a recent gradu...
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: July 1, 2013 9:16 AM On Friday, U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., introduced a bill which would require the FBI to investigate specific groups or individuals and forces the NSA to limit collecting information to groups and people being investigated. Ross made it clear that his bill, which he dubbed the Relevancy Act, was a response to the FBI ordering Verizon to send all its caller information over to the NSA, “The law requires that the records be relevant to the investiga...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 8:33 p.m. MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY Clayton Logsdon, senior at McKeel Academy of Technology, was presented with an acceptance letter from the United States Air Force Academy during the senior awards ceremony at McKeel. The USAF Academy scholarship is valued at $414,000. He was recommended by Rep. Dennis Ross. Logsdon was also recognized with a President's Award from President Obama's office for achieving a 3.5 or above GPA throughout his high school career, and for ...
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By Pete Kasperowicz - 06/13/13 08:38 PM ET The House has approved language that would prevent the Defense Department (DOD) from using any taxpayer funds to add or upgrade recreational facilities at detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The language, from Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.), is a reaction to reports from last year that cable TV and other amenities — including a soccer field — were being built for detainees. Ross's language was one of several amendments approved en bloc to the Natio...
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Florida Watchdog By William Patrick / June 7, 2013 REP. DENNIS ROSS: Led all House members from the 112 Congress in net taxpayer savings legislation. According to the National Taxpayer’s Union Foundation, Florida Rep. Dennis Ross had the largest net savings agenda of any member of the House of Representatives during the 112th Congress. While Congress as a whole proposed $2.5 trillion in budget increases, Ross wanted $609 billion in taxpayer savings; second only to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s $650 ...
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Tampa Bay Times Alex Leary, Times Washington Bureau Chief Thursday, June 6, 2013 10:33am Bipartisanship isn’t dead. Florida Reps. Kathy Castor, a Democrat from Tampa and Dennis Ross, a Republican from Lakeland, have introduced a bill that would truncate Social Security numbers on documents. Ross: “More than 70,000 Floridians were victims of identity theft in 2012. Truncating Social Security numbers will help eliminate the ability to steal someone else’s identity and commit fraud. The Safeguardin...
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Volume 63, Issue Number 16, May 31, 2013 More than 70 people attended Florida Citrus Mutual's inaugural Agriculture Town Hall meeting featuring U.S. Reps. Dennis Ross, Tom Rooney, and Ted Yoho. The group fielded questions from moderator Mike Sparks, Mutual's executive VP/CEO, who touched on a host of issues including immigration reform, disease research funding and health care. "The Town Hall meeting provides great forum for getting members of our delegation in front of growers and as the indust...
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Washington Post By Eric Yoder, Updated: May 28, 2013 The government would have to produce an annual report detailing the use of on-the-clock time by its employees for union purposes, including the number who spend all their working time on such matters, under a bill cleared by a House committee last week. “Currently, there is no accurate reporting of official time, which costs taxpayers millions of dollars each year,” said an announcement by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, w...
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By: Sunshine State News | Posted: May 23, 2013 1:10 PM Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross has a new committee assignment This week, with U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio, winning a coveted spot on the Ways and Means Committee, Ross took the seat he left open on the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance. With his new assignment in hand, Ross took aim at the controversial Dodd-Frank reforms. “I am honored to serve on such an important committee to Florida,”...
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Politics in Polk Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 5:22 by Bill Rufty U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, brought attention to the slowness of medical service provided to some veterans when he appeared before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health on Tuesday. Ross testified on his bill, H.R. 241, Veterans Timely Access to Health Care Act, which is being heard by the subcommittee. The bill states that veterans seeking primary and specialty care from a Department of Veterans Affairs...
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