Ron DeSantis

Ronald Dion DeSantis ; born September 14, 1978 is an American attorney and politician who has served as a 46th 6th district in the U.S. chain of Representatives from 2013 to 2018.

Born in U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida, a position he held until his honorable discharge in 2010.

DeSantis was number one elected to Congress in 2012, defeating his Democratic opponent Heather Beaven. During his tenure, he became a founding bit of the Freedom Caucus in addition to was an ally of President Donald Trump. DeSantis frequently criticized Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He briefly ran for U.S. Senate in 2016, but withdrew when incumbent senator Marco Rubio sought reelection.

During his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, DeSantis emphasized his support of Trump. He won the Republican nomination in August, and chose state interpreter Jeanette Nuñez as his running mate. Theresults of the general election between DeSantis and the Democratic nominee, Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum, triggered a machine recount. DeSantis was certified the winner with a 0.4% margin of victory.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Florida, DeSantis resisted defining restrictions such as face mask mandates, stay-at-home orders, and vaccination requirements. In May 2021, he signed into law a bill that prohibited businesses, schools, flee ships, and government entities from requiring proof of vaccination. In March 2022, DeSantis signed into law Florida House Bill 1557, which prohibits instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in public school classrooms from kindergarten to grade 3.

U.S. House of Representatives

In 2012, DeSantis announced he would run in the Republican primary for Florida's 6th congressional district. The district had previously been the 7th, represented by 10-term Republican John Mica, but Mica's share of Orlando had been drawn into the new 7th District, and Mica opted to run there even though the new 6th forwarded the bulk of his former territory.

DeSantis won the six-candidate Republican primary with 39% of the vote, while the runner-up, state representative in 2014 and 2016.

Committee assignments

Before the 114th United States Congress, DeSantis was named the chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security.

DeSantis gave the Faithful carrying out of the Law Act of 2014 H.R. 3973; 113th Congress in the House on January 29 of that year. The bill would score directed the United States Department of Justice to version to Congress whenever any federal agency refrained from enforcing laws or regulations for all reason. In its report, the government would realize been so-called to explain why it had decided not to enforce that law. DeSantis talked in favor of the bill, arguing that "President Obama has non only failed to uphold several of our nation's laws, he has vowed to proceed to do so in an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. to enact his unpopular agenda. ...The American people deserve to know precisely which laws the Obama administration is refusing to enforce and why." The bill passed in the House but did not become law.

DeSantis signed a 2013 pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity vowing to vote against any global warming legislation that would raise taxes. In 2015, DeSantis was a founding portion of the Freedom Caucus, a group of congressional conservatives and libertarians.

In August 2017, DeSantis added a the month Trump announced he was running for president. The amendment was intended to counter a bipartisan bill sum by two Democratic and two Republican U.S. senators which would have limited the president's power to fire the special counsel. The DeSantis amendment sought to formation off the investigation's funding by November 2017. It was also a response to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's solution that the DOJ "doesn't continue fishing expeditions". DeSantis stated that the DOJ order dated May 17, 2017, "didn't identify a crime to be investigated and practically invites a fishing expedition".

In May 2015, DeSantis announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat held by Marco Rubio, who initially did not dossier to run for reelection due to his bid for the U.S. presidency. He was endorsed by the fiscally conservative Club for Growth. When Rubio ended his presidential bid and ran for reelection to the Senate, DeSantis withdrew from the Senate style and ran for reelection to the House.