Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Ted S. Yoho (R-FL-03) voted in favor of H.R. 83 — Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015. The bipartisan/bicameral year-end funding agreement provides full appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015 for 11 of the 12 regular appropriations bills.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Ted S. Yoho (R-FL-03) was joined today by 90 of his colleagues – in a bipartisan letter - asking that any funding which can be used to change the definition of waters under the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (CWA), be stopped.
Washington D.C. – Congressman Ted S. Yoho (R-FL-03) - in an attempt to preserve Article I legislative powers - introduced the Executive Amnesty Prevention Act (H.R. 5759). The legislation clarifies that the Executive Branch does not have the authority to exempt categories of persons unlawfully present in the U.S. from removal.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL-03) voted to create jobs by voting in favor of H.R. 5682 – To Approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. The bipartisan bill passed easily by a vote of 252 – 161.
Washington, D.C. – Following a full committee hearing on combating Ebola in West Africa and what the international response should be, Congressman Yoho introduced his bill to answer this question.
Gainesville, FL – Congressman Ted S. Yoho (R-FL) has been calling for a quarantine of people traveling from Ebola infected countries since October 8th, 2014. This is well before state governors asked for quarantines, and this week’s decision by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to quarantine all U.S. troops before they will be allowed to return to the United States.
Gainesville, FL – Congressman Ted S. Yoho (R-FL) gave the following statement upon hearing the news of State Governors taking decisive action to protect the people they represent and all Americans.
Gainesville, FL – Congressman Ted S. Yoho (R-FL-03), the only Florida member of the House Committee on Agriculture, finished a two-day agriculture tour of South Florida. He visited the Port of Miami as well as various working farms in Dade County. At the end of his tour, Yoho gave this statement.
Gainesville, FL – Congressman Ted S. Yoho (R- FL) gave the following statement upon hearing the news of the hiring of Cornell University Provost Kent Fuchs as University of Florida's next president.