Press Releases
ORLANDO, FL – Today Rep. Val Demings (FL-10) toured True Health and held a roundtable discussion with patients, health care professionals, and industry experts. The discussion focused on the devastating consequences of overturning the Affordable Care Act, and the work of House Democrats to address the soaring costs of prescription drugs. Rep.
ORLANDO, FL – Today, Rep. Demings issued the following statement. At 10:00am this morning, she will speak on the floor of the House of Representatives in honor of the victims of the 2016 Pulse shooting.
ORLANDO, FL – Today, Special Counsel Robert Mueller spoke for the first time about the contents and context of his report.
ORLANDO, FL – Today, former Orlando Police Chief Rep. Val Demings (FL-10) attended the Peace Officers’ Memorial Service in honor of the 228 law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty in the last year. This includes fourteen from Florida.
ORLANDO, FL – Today, the Florida Democratic congressional delegation voted for H.R. 986, the Protecting Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Act of 2019, which blocks the Trump Administration’s efforts to give states the ability to weaken the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) critical protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions.
ORLANDO, FL – Today Rep. Demings announced that Leila Mina Elguennich, a tenth-grade student at Dr.
ORLANDO, FL – Today Attorney General Barr failed to show up for his scheduled hearing with the House Judiciary Committee. In addition, he failed to comply with a lawful subpoena to produce the full Mueller Report and all underlying evidence to House Judiciary.
ORLANDO, FL – Rep. Val Demings (FL-10) today reintroduced federal legislation—The Secure Communities and Safe Schools Act—to prevent the Trump Administration from using anti-terrorism funding to give guns to educators. Specifically, it would block the use of Homeland Security grant money and Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant money for that purpose.
ORLANDO, FL – Rep. Val Demings (FL-10) today commented on the redacted release of Special Counsel Mueller’s Report.