A husband, father and longtime resident, Mario Diaz-Balart has always been concerned with the issues that most affect South Florida’s families, like job creation, lowering taxes and keeping our children and families safe. Next November, he seeks re-election to Congressional District 21.
For nearly 24 years, Mario has been honored to serve the residents of South Florida, first in the State Legislature and later in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he has been representing South Florida since 2002.
Mario has persistently helped lower taxes on families and small businesses, and has fought back attempts to raise taxes on hard-working Americans like you. Mario has successfully delivered millions of dollars in federal funding for key local projects including the I-75 widening, all of Miami’s transit corridors and Everglades restoration, as well as funding for our local institutions of higher education including Florida International University, Miami Dade College and the University of Miami, and our local health care providers and hospitals. He has also led Congressional efforts to investigate contaminated Chinese drywall, continues to push for free trade agreements with democratic allies like Colombia and Panama, and was instrumental in efforts to obtain TPS for Haitians.
After the 2005 hurricanes, Mario effectively worked with his colleagues to provide federal relief for the towns, cities and our local growers trying to recover from damage. Mario also successfully pushed FEMA to reimburse gated communities for debris removal, and brought federal officials from Washington, DC to South Florida to see the destruction left by the storms, while working to ensure affected Floridians were included in hurricane tax relief legislation.
In 2006, Mario launched the Protecting Families Online initiative to help parents protect their families against online predators and ID theft. He also cosponsored legislation that strengthened the National AMBER alert network by improving law enforcement’s ability to prevent, investigate and prosecute violent criminals that target children.
Today Mario continues to fight for what matters most to South Florida’s families. In November 2012, he hopes to count on your support, so that he can continue being your voice in Washington and working on those issues that most affect our community.
