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
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.
Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
I would like to give evidence we can lead. And I think the only way we can do that is to unify the diversity of the party.
You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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.
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.'
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.
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 have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.
For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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.
I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.