WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- Rep. Scott Franklin, R-Florida, issued the following statement on Feb. 20, 2024: * * * Rep. Scott Franklin (R-FL) today issued the following statement in response to being named a member of House Speaker Johnson's bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI): "In the AI arena, the world requires Congress to step up and lead. Leading experts have rightly noted there is no group or body in the world better positioned to lead on this than Congress. We have the lar more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued the following news release: Families Deserve Better than Democrats' Child "Tax Credit" U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) February 20, 2024 National Review The child tax credit (CTC) has been a pillar of conservative, pro-family policy for almost 30 years.... But today, Republicans are poised to undo that good work by agreeing to a bill that would leave nine out of ten CTC-eligible families worse off than they were in 2017.... The rea more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Feb. 20, 2024: Today, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) announced that H.R. 537, her and Rep. Ritchie Torres' (D-NY) bipartisan "Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act" has secured 261 cosponsors since its introduction in January 2023. H.R. 537 hit a critical benchmark as the seventh most cosponsored legislation in the 118th Congress, surpassing more than 9,000 other bills that ha more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued the following news release: On July 18, 1994, Iranian-backed Hezbollah mercenaries carried out a brutal terrorist attack against the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) Building in Buenos Aires. The hateful terrorist attack killed 85 and injured hundreds of civilians. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, visited the AMIA museum to pay his respects to the fallen victims more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued the following news release: TikTok, a social media app controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, is a national security risk to the United States. Republicans and Democrats in Congress, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and President Joe Biden's White House acknowledge this threat. Yet, President Biden is now creating content for a TikTok account created by his re-election campaign. U.S. Senator Ma more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, issued the following news release: Today, Senator Rick Scott sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris urging her to fulfill her constitutional duty to serve as the presiding officer of Secretary Mayorkas's trial following the House of Representatives impeaching him last week. As the President of the Senate, Vice President Harris is the appropriate constitutional presiding officer to oversee the impeachment trial of Secretary Mayorkas, and  more PR