Deputy Assistant Secretary for Screening Coordination for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kelli Ann Burriesci testified before two congressional subcommittees on terrorism and the Visa Waiver Program on Thursday and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., wasn’t happy with what he heard. 

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., the ranking Democrat on the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, urged President Barack Obama to hold Iran accountable after Iran tested missiles in violation of UN resolutions. 

More than 30 members of Congress, including ten representatives from Florida, sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) calling for an environmental review of seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean.

Noting a rising trend of young people attempting suicide, state Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Ft. Myers, and state Rep. Dane Eagle, R-Cape Coral, filed a bill to provide educators in elementary, middle and high schools two hours of continuing education credits and inservice training on suicide prevention.  

From her perch on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel took aim at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S. on Wednesday. 

U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., called for President Barack Obama to take action against Iran after reports emerged that it tested ballistic missiles last month in violation of UN resolutions. 

Presenting Christmas trees to his fellow state Cabinet officers, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam urged Floridians to buy a tree from the Sunshine State. 

U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., who is running to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the U.S. Senate in 2016, called on businessman Donald Trump to get out of the Republican presidential race after he called on banning immigrants from coming to the U.S. 

As two of the co-chairs of the  Bipartisan Taskforce for Combatting Anti-Semitism, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., signed on a letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán regarding a monument to a Nazi collaborator. 

Former New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer announced on Monday that he had made the ballot by petition as he continues his bid for the Republican nod to replace U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., in Congress. DeSantis is running for the U.S. Senate in 2016.