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Recently, "Prime Time Radio" - AARP's weekly national hour-long program ran a feature on Florida's Silver Alert Program. The story, which ran on 120 public radio stations across the country, includes three comments from Gus that spotlight his efforts to take the program nationwide.
On Monday, Gus joined The Federal Drive with hosts Tom Temin and Jane Norris to discuss H.R. 1624 , Military Personnel Income Tax Exclusion Act.
St. Petersburg Times Editorial
Praise is due for work to create Silver Alert
In Print: Friday, March 27, 2009
WASHINGTON (26 March) – The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), one of the nation's leading healthcare advocacy organizations, today named U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) a '2009 Distinguished Community Health Center Superhero' for his efforts to improve access to quality and affordable health services for uninsured and medically underserved people.
Every fifteen minutes a child is born with a congenital heart defect. These defects are the most common and most deadly form of birth defects, affecting nearly 1% of births or about 36,000 newborns a year. There are over 30 different forms of congenital heart defects, which occur when the structures of the heart are malformed, missing or in the wrong place during development.
Yesterday, Gus hosted his seminar on consumer fraud and identity theft.
The seminar was held at the CARES Rao Musunuru, M.D. Activity Center in Hudson and featured officials from the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Postal Service.
WASHINGTON (24 March) - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), member of the House Homeland Security Committee, which would strengthen America's maritime borders by screening interdicted aliens at sea against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) biometric watch lists.
On Tuesday, Gus joined with Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS), and Representative Zack Space (D-OH) to introduce bipartisan legislation that increases awareness, education and research into congenital heart disease – a rapidly growing national health problem.
The Congenital Heart Futures Act aims to prevent premature death and disability and increase the quality of life for the nearly 1.8 million people in the United States living with congenital heart disease.