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WASHINGTON (21 March) – This evening U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Fla.), representing Florida's 9th Congressional District, issued the following statement after voting against the trillion dollar health care overhaul:
"Today, Congress missed a chance to reform health care in a sensible and equitable way.
WASHINGTON (11 March) - U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Fla.), representing Florida's 9th Congressional District, today issued the following statement after the House Republican Conference adopted a unilateral moratorium on earmarks:
WASHINGTON (25 February) ? During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday, U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Fla.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee?s Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight, pressed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to take prompt action to bolster our nation?s visa screening capabilities overseas in order to keep terrorists out of the United States.
WASHINGTON (1 February) – U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Fla.), representing Florida's 9th Congressional District, today issued the following statement after the release of the White House's record $3.8 trillion FY2011 budget proposal:
"I have been encouraged by President Obama's recent calls for fiscal responsibility, but unfortunately the budget numbers presented today don't match the rhetoric.
WASHINGTON (27 January) – U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Fla.), representing Florida's 9th Congressional District, this evening released the following statement on President Barack Obama's first State of the Union Address:
"Tonight President Obama outlined a welcomed, although small step toward fiscal responsibility. Unfortunately, I fear that freezing 1/6 of the federal budget after a year of enormous spending increases which have already set us on a course to double the size of the $12 trillion national debt is little more than a political ploy.
This afternoon Gus visited with Veterans Administration Secretary Eric Shinseki.
WASHINGTON (21 January) - A dispute between the Obama Administration and Republicans on the Committee on Homeland Security over the Congress' right to conduct independent investigations of the Executive Branch ended when the Administration provided the Committee copies of a security manual it had withheld during Congressional hearings last month.