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WASHINGTON — A Vietnam War veteran from Fort Lauderdale who suffered severe burns in combat and financial hardship back home will be watching from the House gallery Tuesday night when President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address.
Washington, DC – South Florida Congresswomen Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27) and Lois Frankel (FL-22) announced today that they will sit together during President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday in a show of bipartisanship and as part of their ongoing commitment working across party lines to make progress for South Florida.
Boca Raton, FL – Congresswoman Lois Frankel (FL-22) announced today that she will bring Jeff Colaiacovo, a South Florida Vietnam veteran as her guest to Tuesday’s State of the Union. Frankel met Colaiacovo when he contacted her office for assistance with a disability claim stuck in the VA backlog.
Boca Raton, FL—Today Congresswoman Lois Frankel announced that she has invited all high school students in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District to participate in the inaugural Congressional Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academic Competition, “The House STEM App Challenge.” This competition will allow students in South Florida and across the country to compet
Boca Raton, FL –Congresswoman Lois Frankel (FL-22) released the following statement to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Washington, DC—Congresswoman Lois Frankel today again called on Congress to bring an extension of emergency unemployment insurance to the House floor, following the news that only 74,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in December.
Washington, DC—Today Congresswoman Lois Frankel joined fellow freshmen colleagues in urging Speaker John Boehner to request an immediate, up-or-down vote to extend emergency unemployment insurance for 1.3 million Americans.
Following the release of a new report about unemployment disproportionally affecting Florida and the Senate voting to begin consideration of a bipartisan three-month extension of unemployment insurance, Congresswoman Lois Frankel issued the following statement.
President Barack Obama today signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes Congresswoman Lois Frankel’s provision that directs the military to examine the need for a new definition of rape and sexual assault in cases when someone abuses their position in the Military Chain of Command.
Odd political bedfellows struck port deal
December 21, 2013
WASHINGTON — Lois Frankel, an anti-war liberal Democrat from South Florida, bonded with some of the most strident conservatives from the tea-party movement during her first year in Congress — and really came to like them.