Florida Politics — The first-term Democrat from Winter Park was recognized this week for her efforts on behalf of small business. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce presented Murphy , a member of the House Small Business Committee, with its Spirit of Enterprise Award for her support of small businesses and for streamlining federal regulations. During her short time in Congress, Murphy has seen her bill on microloan modernization — passed unanimously; had two of her provisions — making it easier for small businesses...
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U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy today helped pass in the U.S. House of Representatives the Fiscal Year 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act —a must-pass bill that funds the federal government through Sept. 30, 2018. Murphy said the bill contains four bipartisan measures she championed, including allowing the CDC to research gun violence; increasing funding to help women entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses; cutting through red tape to help small businesses get microloans; and protecting...
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Orlando Sentinel — Stephanie Murphy , the author of a bill to allow gun violence research, praised new language in the omnibus bill that would finally permit it after being effectively banned for 22 years. Language in the new spending bill, up for a vote in the next two days, “effectively repeals” the 1996 Dickey Amendment that has kept the Centers for Disease Control from doing any research into the causes of gun violence, Murphy’s office said. While the new language restates that the CDC...
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Florida Politics — Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy has found a maneuver that may get Congress to enact her repeal of the federal ban on funding gun violence research, with amendment language inserted into the latest budget bill coming together. For a year now the freshman from Winter Park has been pushing a bipartisan bill, The Gun Violence Research Act, but it has moved slowly and with uncertainty toward its goal of repealing the so-called Dickey Amendment, a 1990s measure than forbids federal...
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This week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce presented its Spirit of Enterprise Award to U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy for her work supporting America’s small businesses and streamlining federal regulations. Murphy is a member of the House Small Business Committee and advanced several legislative measures in Congress to help small businesses in central Florida and throughout the country to access capital and more fairly compete for federal contracts. Jack Howard, Senior Vice President of the U.S....
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Congressional leaders today unveiled a must-pass federal spending bill that paves the way for critical research into the causes of and solutions to gun violence, an issue that U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy has championed since coming to Congress. Language in the bill that Murphy helped secure effectively repeals the so-called Dickey Amendment, a two-decades-old provision that has had a chilling effect on federally-sponsored gun violence research. This new bill that funds all federal agencies...
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U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy today wrote to the Secretary of the Army to express why she believes the Silver Star awarded to fallen war hero Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe should be upgraded to the Medal of Honor. Sergeant First Class Cashe, who grew up in Oviedo, Fla., sacrificed his life to save the lives of his fellow soldiers and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for his heroic actions in combat. Murphy contacted the U.S. Army and learned that Sergeant First Class Cashe’s Silver...
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U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy of Winter Park, Fla., announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $ 2,440,695 to the Orange County Housing and Community Development Division to help low-income individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS access medical care and other critical support services. The grant, made possible through the Health Resources & Services Administration’s HIV Emergency Relief Program, provides direct financial assistance to areas...
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