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Florida Legislative Matrix and Representatives

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District State Governor: Rick Scott

Rick Scott is the 45th Governor of Florida. The primary focus of his activities is job creation and improvement of the state economy (“Meet Governor Scott,” n.d.). Governor is interested in improving health care as well. As an entrepreneur, he specialized in healthcare transactions aimed at “improving hospital efficiency, lowering costs, and focusing on better outcomes” (“Meet Governor Scott,” n.d., para. 3). It means that in his legislative work, he may also focus on the improvement of healthcare services and increasing their affordability.

State Senators: Miami-Dade

  Party Committee Assignments
Oscar II Braynon Democrat
  • Ethics and Electronics;
  • Banking and Insurance;
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on the Environment and Natural Resources;
  • Joint Legislative Budget Commissions.
Daphne Campbell Democrat
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on Finance and Tax;
  • Children, Families, and Elder Affairs;
  • Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities;
  • Community Affairs.
Anitere Flores Republican
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (Chair);
  • Banking and Insurance (Chair);
  • Appropriations (Vice Chair);
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice;
  • Environmental Preservation and Conservation;
  • Joint Legislative Budget Commissions.
Rene Garcia Republican
  • Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Chair);
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on Finance and Tax (Vice Chair);
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on the Environment and Natural Resources;
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government;
  • Banking and Insurance;
  • Joint Administrative Procedures Committee.
Jose Javier Rodriguez Democrat
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice;
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on Finance and Tax;
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government;
  • Commerce and Tourism;
  • Community Affairs;
  • Ethics and Elections;
  • Rules.
Annette Taddeo Democrat
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government;
  • Banking and Insurance;
  • Environmental Preservation and Conservation;
  • Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic; Security;
  • Transportation.

Source: The Florida Senate (2018).

Florida House of Representatives: Travis Cummings

Leader Cummings was first elected in 2012. His committee assignments include

  • Joint Administrative Procedures Committee (Chair);
  • Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee (Vice Chair);
  • Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee;
  • Health & Human Services;
  • State Affairs Committee (“Meet Travis,” 2018).

Federal Senators from Florida

  Party Committee Assignments
Bill Nelson Democrat
  • Committee on Armed Services (Senior member);
  • Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Ranking member);
  • Committee on Finance (Senior member);
  • Special Committee on Aging (Senior member).
Marco Rubio Republican
  • Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Chairman of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues);
  • Committee on Appropriations (member);
  • Committee on Foreign Relations (member);
  • Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (member);
  • Select Committee on Intelligence (member);
  • Special Committee on Aging (member).

Source: United States Senate (n.d.).

United States Representatives

Nowadays, 147 individuals from Florida represent the state in the U.S. House. Two of the current members are Carlos Curbelo and Vern Buchanan. Throughout 2011-2018, Vern Buchanan was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, including Subcommittee on Health, Subcommittee on Human Resources (Chairman), and Subcommittee on Social Security (“About Vern,” n.d.). He voted for budgetary changes in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (American Health Care Act of 2017), as well as for the amendment of the criminal code making abortion during and after 20th post-fertilization week illegal (Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act).

Carlos Curbelo was first elected to the House in 2014. Since 2015, he has served in Small Business Committee, including Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade (Chairman), and Subcommittee on Health and Technology; Committee on Ways and Means, and so on (“Committees,” n.d.). Similar to Vern Buchanan, he voted for the American Health Care Act of 2017 and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

References

About Vern. (n.d.). Web.

Committees. (n.d.). Web.

Florida Senate. (2018). 2016-2018 senators. Web.

Meet Governor Scott. (n.d.). Web.

Meet Travis. (2018). Web.

United State Senate. (n.d.). Committee assignments of the 115th Congress. Web.

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