Press Releases
June 4, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, today visited a Stormwater and Drainage Improvements project site in the City of Sweetwater.
Issues:Appropriations
June 1, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, senior member of the House Appropriations and Budget Committees, issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released the May 2018 jobs report.
Issues:Tax Relief
May 25, 2018
Today, Rep. Diaz-Balart and colleagues Reps. Ros-Lehtinen, Sires, Curbelo, Cook, Wasserman Schultz and Smith introduced a resolution honoring the Ladies in White and commending them for receiving the Cato Institute’s 2018 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.
Issues:Cuba
May 24, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, issued the following statement after the Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal year 2019 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development funding bill. The bill is now ready to be considered for a vote on the House floor.
May 21, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart released the following statement after yesterday’s farce elections in Venezuela.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
May 20, 2018
Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart issued the following statement on the 116th anniversary of Cuban Independence Day.
Issues:Cuba
May 18, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart issued the following statement after the Trump Administration issued additional sanctions against Maduro regime operatives, including Diosdado Cabello.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
May 17, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after the Committee approved the fiscal year 2019 Agriculture Appropriations bill.
Issues:AgricultureAppropriations
May 17, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement after the Committee approved the fiscal year 2019 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill. The legislation included an increase in funding for the STOP School Violence Act, which Diaz-Balart worked with Chairman Frelinghuysen and Subcommittee Chairman Culberson to secure.
Issues:Appropriations
May 16, 2018
Congressman Diaz-Balart, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee and Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Everglades Caucus, released the following statement after the Committee approved the fiscal year 2019 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill.
Issues:Everglades Restoration