Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) and other Florida House Democrats urged Florida Senators Rick Scott and Ashley Moody to oppose the costly and destructive House Republican budget bill, which will strip health coverage away from over 1.8 million Floridians, an outsized impact on hardworking families in the Sunshine State. “The House Republican budget bill will hurt the State of Florida, our fa... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), U.S. House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) along with 40 Democratic Colleagues ... Read More »
As President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans work to gut the Affordable Care Act (ACA), U.S. Representatives Kathy Castor (FL-14) and Dwight Evans (PA-03) and U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (WI) and Jeanne Shaheen (NH) introduced legislation today in the House and Senate to restore a key initiative of the health care law that helps American families navigate the ACA marketplace and connect... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) released the following statement today on the passing of Tampa City Councilwoman Gwendolyn Henderson: “I am deeply saddened to learn of the sudden loss of Councilwoman Gwen Henderson. Gwen was a devoted public servant, a passionate advocate for Tampa’s neighborhoods and a fierce voice for Tampa families. “Her love for her hometown was evident in ev... Read More »
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) urged the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Lori Chavez-Remer to reverse DOL’s decision to close the Pinellas County Job Corps Center. The abrupt decision to pause Job Corps operations nationwide is creating deep concerns for the more than 250 students affected by the order. “This harsh and arbitrary decision casts students into a... Read More »
TAMPA, Fla. – U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor (FL-14), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Doris Matsui (CA-07), Kim Schrier (WA-08) and Lori Trahan (MA-03), member of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote to Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to urge immediate action to halt the deployment of all AI-powered social companion bots to users under the age of eighteen and any AI companion bot ... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) blasted the House Republican “Billionaire Boondoggle” bill that would rip health care coverage away from at least 14 million Americans including children, seniors and people with disabilities, while ballooning the nation’s debt to give massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans like Elon Musk. The revised version of the bill also would f... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s rescission of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, including many living and working in Florida, that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court late yesterday: “Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who fled political and economic oppression are now ... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than 26 hours of debate in the Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) delivered closing remarks exposing the impact of House Republicans’ plan to gut health care for nearly 14 million Americans. The House Republicans’ budget proposal slashes roughly $800 billion from Medicaid and other critical health care initiatives that serve low- and middle-incom... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor (FL-14) and Darren Soto (FL-09) are urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to investigate the potentially unlawful diversion of $10 million in Medicaid funds by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, the Hope Florida Foundation and Centene in a letter released ... Read More »
TAMPA, FL — Before heading back to Washington, D.C., where her Republican Energy and Commerce colleagues plan to rip health care away from millions of Americans and make life more expensive for everyone to fund tax breaks for the wealthy, Castor stood with local health care advocates to demand that Republicans keep their hands off our health coverage, which is life or death for many Floridians. “M... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) is standing up for her neighbors against Congressional Republicans' and President Trump's cruel cuts, kicking people off their health coverage, hitting families' wallets with higher electric bills and costlier health care and much more included in their big, bad budget bill. "Tony McLaurin is a spirited seven-year-old from Wesley Chapel, Flo... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) highlighted a recent analysis of the Republican proposals to cut health services for Americans who rely on Medicaid. The analysis, conducted by the nonpartisan, independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO), exposes the devastating human cost of Congressional Republicans’ proposed tax giveaway to the wealthiest Americans. “Republicans propose to cu... Read More »
TAMPA, Fla. – Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) urged President Trump to immediately grant humanitarian parole for Heidy Sánchez, a Tampa mother who was ripped away from her infant daughter and husband and unlawfully deported to Cuba: “It is unconscionable and wrong for your ICE personnel to harm families in this way. Ms. Sánchez is entitled to due process, and her husband and daughter (both U... Read More »
“I am working with the family of my constituent, Frengel Reyes Mota, to help in any way I can. Tearing apart this family is cruel, plain and simple. Courts have ruled that Trump is violating the law, and people are entitled to due process under the Constitution. It is wasteful and costly for Trump to generate such chaos and fail to target criminals. “Immigration enforcement must be lawful and huma... Read More »
