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
The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, I'm home. I try to not do legislative stuff. That brings a balance to life.
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.
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.
There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.
What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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.
You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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.'
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.