Dan Webster
Dan Webster
Daniel Alan Websteris an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2011. Webster, a Republican from Florida, initially represented Florida's 8th congressional district; since 2013, his district has been numbered the 10th district, located in the central part of the state. Previously, Webster served 28 years in the Florida state legislature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 April 1949
CountryUnited States of America
Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.
When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.
You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.