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March 29, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart offered remarks at an event highlighting Collier County’s recently awarded TIGER grant for Immokalee’s Complete Streets project.
March 22, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart issued the following statement after the Trump administration today announced tough measures against the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in a move to thwart the communist country from continuing longstanding unfair trade practices and intellectual property (IP) theft.
March 22, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, issued the following statement after the House passage of the fiscal year 2018 omnibus funding bill.
March 20, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart delivered the following opening statement during a House Appropriations hearing on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s FY2019 budget request with Secretary Ben Carson.
March 19, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart issued the following statement after the Trump administration announced additional sanctions against the Maduro regime. This latest round of sanctions prohibits any financial transactions involving the regime’s Petro digital currency, and imposes sanctions on four Maduro operatives.
March 15, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, issued the following statement after the collapse of the FIU Pedestrian Bridge.
March 14, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted 407-10 to approve H.R. 4909, the STOP School Violence Act. Diaz-Balart is a co-sponsor of this legislation.
March 8, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, along with 15 bipartisan members of the Florida delegation, wrote to Agriculture Secretary Perdue to request that any disaster relief payments to producers not be subject to strict payment and income limitations typically used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
March 6, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, and Senator Rubio, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released the following statements today after the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a TIGER grant of over $13 million to transform Immokalee’s infrastructure:
March 2, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, along with Senator Rubio, Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, and Congressman Curbelo, today hosted Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations Nikki Haley at Florida International University for a discussion on the current state of affairs in Latin America and the region’s relationship with the United States. Congressman Diaz-Balart issued the following statement after the event.