Cammack's FRESH Act draft would override state bans on PFAS in food packaging, artificial dyes in school food, and heavy-metal testing — and let industry-funded panels declare new chemicals safe for immediate sale. Consumer Reports, CSPI and EWG are all fighting it.
Mike Haridopolos chairs the House subcommittee that oversees America's space program. SpaceX, L3Harris, Blue Origin and Honeywell all fund him — and just 2% of his money comes from small donors.
The Florida congressman now praising DOGE for exposing government waste once collected $152,000 in public money from a community college for a 175-page double-spaced manuscript that existed in a single copy.
In May, HHS handed the surgeon general's duties to Stephanie Haridopolos — a staffer the Senate never confirmed, and the wife of Rep. Mike Haridopolos, who six months earlier voted to let Floridians' insurance premiums spike.
Rutherford says constituents who want a town hall will 'scream and holler, and act like fools.' His Republican primary opponent, Mark Kaye, launched his campaign with this: 'In 10 years of service, this guy hasn't held a single town hall meeting.'
Police and Trooper Support PAC and Support America's Police PAC raised millions from retirees, spent most of it on their own phone banks, and recorded the biggest outside spending in Rutherford's FEC file. The same days, the same dollars were booked supporting a Democrat.
On the day the Iran war started, Rutherford's official House statement misspelled the operation's name three times and said the regime 'must be obliterated.' Within hours the page was silently renamed. Congress never voted on any of it.
Doctors in the room shouted that it was false. Bilirakis backed up the claim by pointing at a real board — one that was never appointed, never met, was legally barred from rationing care, and was abolished a year later. 'The board exists, OK?' he told CNN.
His Eliminate DEI in Colleges Act makes a school ineligible for every federal program — including federal student loans — unless it certifies it runs no DEI program and no DEI office. He's introduced it twice. He also voted against naming a Tallahassee courthouse for Florida's first Black Supreme Court justice.