U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa/St. Petersburg) today released the following statement after House Republicans voted for legislation that does not responsibly address the problem of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border, and could result in the deportation of DREAMers. “Congressional Republicans voted tonight to eliminate sex trafficking protections for children and to deport DREAM Act students. In doing so, they are moving farther away from comprehensive immigration reform that would...
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By U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor published in The Tampa Tribune on July 31, 2014 You and your employer should check the mailbox this summer for health insurance rebate checks. For the third year in a row, rebate checks from health insurance companies are on their way to customers. This is thanks to a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurers to spend the majority of premiums — at least 80 percent — directly on medical costs rather than administrative costs, such as executive salaries,...
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL) released the following statement after the U.S. House passed a bill 225-201 to sue President Obama:
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A new report shows the health reform law has helped to extend the life of the Medicare trust fund, in addition to improving Medicare overall.
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Strategies to combat rising college costs and crushing college debt plaguing today’s students are imperative to building an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy. Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL) hailed the passage of bipartisan legislation to strengthen financial counseling to ensure families receive the information they need to better understand their college financing options and reduce the burden of student debt.
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL) announced today that she and 32 members of Congress have created the State Medicaid Expansion Caucus to raise local, state and national awareness of the adverse economic and health impacts caused by the 24 states – including Florida – that have refused to expand health services for working Americans under Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
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In response to a three-judge panel in Washington that ruled 2-1 that insurance tax credits apply only in states that have set up their own marketplaces, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL) said the following: “Floridians are at the mercy of the rigid ideology of Republican Gov. Rick Scott and legislators who refused to set up a Florida marketplace, expand health services to a million Floridians under Medicaid and even took away the insurance commissioner's ability to oversee insurance company rate increases. Hopefully, on appeal, the hundreds of thousands of our neighbors who finally have affordable health insurance will maintain access to their valuable tax credits.”
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor hosted a bipartisan meeting today to continue discussions about what the future will bring for MacDill Air Force Base with members of the Tampa Bay delegation and Kathleen Ferguson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment and Logistics and related Department of Defense officials.
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U.S. Representative Kathy Castor (D-Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL) who in 2005 sought to pass an expanded human rights ordinance after the Hillsborough County Commission adopted an anti-gay pride policy with Castor alone voting no released the following statement today:
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