TAMPA, FL – Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) released a statement applauding the Biden-Harris Administration’s announced action to crack down on the sale of Short-Term, Limited Duration Health Insurance (STLDI) plans, commonly referred to as “junk plans.” Originally intended as short-term, gap coverage, junk plans do not provide the same critical consumer… Read more »
TAMPA, FL – U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) helped cut the ribbon at Hillsborough County’s Church Park Head Start center on Monday and announced a $1 billion increase nationally for early childhood education, including Head Start in the bipartisan Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations package passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden last weekend.
“Head Start… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor (D-FL), August Pfluger (R-TX), John Sarbanes (D-MD) and John Joyce (R-PA) introduced the Early Action and Responsiveness Lifts Youth (EARLY) Minds Act, bipartisan legislation that aims to provide early intervention and prevention services to children and adults struggling with mental health challenges.
Recent statistics reveal a… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) voted to pass the final Fiscal Year 2024 “minibus” appropriations bill, a package of six funding bills that will lower costs, make housing more affordable, create and protect good-paying jobs, invest in clean energy and coastal resilience, and protect women’s access to reproductive care. The first of the two funding… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the successful hospital-at-home initiative has allowed hospitals to provide acute care safely in patients’ homes. The At Home Observation and Medical Evaluation (HOME) Services Act would allow the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to test this delivery model on observation status patients through a two-year… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor (FL-14), Paul Tonko (NY-20) and Scott Peters (CA-50) and U.S. Senators Peter Welch (VT) and Angus King (ME) introduced the Advancing Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Act, legislation to boost investments in grid-enhancing technologies (GETs), a type of transmission technology that expands the capacity of existing… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the House passed U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor (FL-14), Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Robin Kelly (D-IL) and Kat Cammack's (R-FL) Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act of 2023 (H.R. 3838). The legislation would improve maternal health throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, addressing… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) announced twelve community priority grants for a wide range of local projects that will lower costs, grow the middle class and build safer communities as part of the FY24 federal appropriations package. The final vote in the House was 207 Democrats and 132 Republicans supporting the legislation.… Read more »
Every year during Black History Month, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) pays tribute to community leaders.
Rep. Castor’s written tributes to these community leaders will be memorialized in the Congressional Record and can be read here:
Dr. Kanika Tomalin
Marcus… Read more »
Every year during Black History Month, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) pays tribute to community leaders.
Rep. Castor’s written tributes to these community leaders will be memorialized in the Congressional Record and can be read here:
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