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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.
Today Gus joined with over 20 of his House colleagues, including House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH), in writing a letter to President Barack Obama expressing their strong opposition to shifting health care for the nation's veterans out of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The letter reads:
The letter highlights the need to ensure that stimulus funding is spent appropriately and is not provided to employers that employ individuals in the United States illegally. In addition, the letter seeks to make certain that funding related to port and border security technology will be spent to meet the needs of enforcement personnel. Many of the provisions of the Act require the Secretary to provide expenditure plans to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee by April 9, 2009.