1/2: This week Florida’s most significant cultural and historical landmark—The @SwampRestaurant in @Gainesville—was threatened with demolition. So today I filed the session’s most important piece of legislation: Amendment #185001 to HB 7103 designates The Swamp Restaurant as...
2/2: ...a fully protected historical site and puts a $10,000,000 dollar fine to any local government that approves a development order resulting in the destruction of this sacred property (the fine will be paid to @ufstudentgov ). #gogators@UF
1/14 I’ve always strongly believed that being an unapologetic, pro-liberty, conservative voice in the legislature is not just the right thing to do, but also a duty—despite knowing full well that doing so could make me a target.
This week I became 1 out of the 25 second-term...
2/14 ...Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives to be denied either a chairman, vice-chairman, or whip position—in addition to receiving reduced committees.
3/14 ...It was meant to send an extraordinarily clear message: that a legislative member’s delivery of the conservative message should be attenuated; that dissent is not to be tolerated; and that sticking to your conservative conscience is problematic.
Oliver Ellsworth
William Samuel Johnson
Roger Sherman
Richard Bassett
Gunning Bedford
Jacob Broom
John Dickinson
George Read
Abraham Baldwin
William Few
William Houston
William L. Pierce
Daniel Carroll
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Luther Martin
James McHenry
John F. Mercer
Elbridge Gerry
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
Caleb Strong
Nicholas Gilman
John Langdon
David Brearly
Jonathan Dayton
William C. Houston
William Livingston
William Paterson
Alexander Hamilton
John Lansing, Jr.
Robert Yates
William. Blount
William R. Davie
Alexander Martin
Richard. Dobbs Spaight
Hugh Williamson
George Clymer
Thomas Fitzsimons
Benjamin Franklin
Jared Ingersoll
Thomas Mifflin
Gouverneur Morris
Robert Morris
James Wilson
Pierce Butler
Charles Pinckney
In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs...
in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone?
Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980?
56 bold men started it all: John Hancock, Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd,...
2/4: Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney
3/4: George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes,