Last week, the Senate again blocked $1.1 billion in desperately needed funding to help research, prevent, and fight the spread of the Zika virus — all for political reasons. The last time I checked, members of Congress are sent to Washington with the duty to protect the American people, not play political games with their lives. Unfortunately, when it comes to passing Zika funding legislation, the lives of those my colleagues and I represent in Florida are being used as bargaining chips for poli...
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LAKELAND, Fla., Aug. 23, 2016 – U.S. Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL-15), Senior Deputy Majority Whip, today made the following statement after sending a letter, along with Reps. Gus Bilirakis (FL-12) and David Jolly (FL-13), to House and Senate Leadership, calling for the immediate passage of Zika funding: “Today, Florida Gov. Rick Scott confirmed the first locally-transmitted case of the Zika virus outside of South Florida in the Tampa Bay Region. It is unacceptable that Congress has the ability to ...
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LAKELAND, Fla., Aug. 8, 2016 – U.S. Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL-15), Senior Deputy Majority Whip, made the following statement before undergoing a planned, regularly-performed surgery this week to correct a common bicuspid aortic valve birth defect: “Upon informing some of my family and friends of my scheduled surgery, many were surprised that as a lawyer and politician I even had a heart,” Ross said in good spirits. “Fortunately, my doctors told me I have a good heart, and I just need a new valve...
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LAKELAND, Fla., Aug. 8, 2016 – U.S. Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL-15), Senior Deputy Majority Whip, announced today that Florida’s 15th Congressional District will benefit from affordable housing funding from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta), one of the 11 district banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System. FHLBank Atlanta awarded $500,000 to assist in funding an affordable housing initiative in District 15 as part of its 2016 Affordable Housing Program (AHP). Noah’s Ark of C...
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 3, 2016 – U.S. Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL-15), Senior Deputy Majority Whip, was joined by the entire Fla. delegation in signing onto Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s letter to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), asking the CDC to reconsider, within applicable rules, its current allocation formula for Zika-specific funds being distributed amongst U.S. states and territories. The CDC announced that the State of Florida will receive $720,000 in new funding for detec...
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LAKELAND, Fla., July 18, 2016 – U.S. Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL-15), Senior Deputy Majority Whip, is excited to announce that Florida’s 15th Congressional District is participating in the 2016 Congressional App Challenge (CAC), an app competition for U.S. high school students: “I strongly encourage high school students throughout my district to participate in the Congressional App Challenge so they may broaden their STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education and computer-ba...
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2016 – U.S. Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL-15), Senior Deputy Majority Whip, made the following statement today after voting to pass H.R. 5631, to hold Iran accountable for its state sponsorship of terrorism and other threatening activities and for its human rights abuses, and for other purposes: “Today marks one year since the disastrous and dangerous Iran Nuclear Deal was reached by Iran and President Obama. This deal was touted as a way to prevent Iran from acquiring nuc...
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2016 – U.S. Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL-15), Senior Deputy Majority Whip, made the following statement today, calling for the immediate resignation of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch: “After witnessing Attorney General Lynch’s lack of concern for her authority and unresponsiveness to the questions asked yesterday during the House Judiciary Committee hearing about her investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, it is abundantly clear she must immediate...
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2016 – U.S. Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL-15), Senior Deputy Majority Whip, made the following statement today after voting to pass the Conscience Protection Act of 2016, which amends the Public Health Service Act to stop the federal government, and any state or local government that receives federal funds, from penalizing, retaliating against, or otherwise discriminating against a health care provider on the basis that the provider does not participate in abortion procedu...
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2016 – U.S. Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL-15), Senior Deputy Majority Whip, today welcomed Kourtney Moody to his D.C. office as a Staff Assistant. Kourtney graduated in May 2015 from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and was previously an intern for U.S. Rep. Bill Posey (FL-8) in his Melbourne, Fla., and D.C. offices. “I am thrilled to have Kourtney join our office,” said Ross. “Her Florida roots and experience serving c...
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