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SIX MONTH

UPDATE

by Congressman Francis Rooney
A s I begin my sixth month in Congress, I am executed. I am actively working

towards solutions that will solve
grateful for this opportunity to update you on
the progress being made on many important
most efficient way possible. My
issues. Over these first few months, I have been committed our water issues in the quickest and
to restoring our Everglades, repealing and replacing mission at the federal level remains
Obamacare, and rolling back the federal government’s clearly targeted towards earning
bureaucratic red tape to get our economy moving again. the support necessary to secure the
Our most critical local issue is fixing Lake Okeechobee federal funding already approved
and restoring our Everglades. The Lake Okeechobee but not yet appropriated. I have
watershed and Everglades have far-ranging impact on had the opportunity to discuss the
the entire State of Florida and the country, but especially Everglades with President Trump,
in Southeast and Southwest Florida, where 55% of all Majority Leader McCarthy, and
real estate in the state is affected - 2 trillion dollars of members of the Army Corps, and believe that they are
economic impact across 164 cities and 16 counties. CERP supportive of our efforts.
was enacted in 2000 and we need its 68 projects to be Nationally, there is no topic that has been more

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