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Bill Huizenga. Markwayne Mullin. She is the first Hispanic woman in to serve in either body. During her time in the Florida State House of Representatives and the state Senate, she worked to ensure that over one- million Floridians were able to send their children to college, by introducing the Florida Prepaid College program, which helps students have tuition to attend college.
As a Congresswoman, Ros- Lehtinen supported legislation to allow a wider range of students to have access to Federal financial aid. She also advocates for veterans to have access to a college education when they return from tours of duty.
Ros-Lehtinen broke another barrier in when she became the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress. During her campaign, Democrat Gerald F.
This campaign tactic backfired for Richman, and Ros-Lehtinen won the election. She did not know that she had broken this barrier until her interview with Katie Couric on the Today Show. In , she became the first Republican to support marriage equality. In a interview for Equality Magazine, Ros-Lehtinen explained the importance of accepting family for who they are.
Marriage equality passed June 26, Ros-Lehtinen has also worked on the behalf of women, especially women in the military. Prior to , these women were not considered veterans, but still had not gained formal recognition for their service in WWII. Along with helping women garner the recognition they deserve, Ros-Lehtinen also works to help women in domestic violence situations. She was the lead sponsor of the Violence Against Women Act, which provides resources to prosecute those who have committed acts of violence toward women.
Ros-Lehtinen is not only a remarkable congresswoman, but she is also a wife, mother, and grandmother. She married her husband Dexter Lehtinen June 9, They have four children and five grandchildren. In , Ros-Lehtinen announced that she would not be running for reelection in Ros-Lehtinen has two children and two stepchildren.
Ros-Lehtinen used the strong community ties she developed in the state legislature to run an effective grassroots campaign. After easily defeating three opponents for the Republican nomination, she faced Gerald Richman, a Miami Beach lawyer and former chairman of the Florida Bar Association in the August 29, , special election. The competitive race drew national attention. The Republican Party viewed the contest as a chance to capture a Democratic stronghold and Hispanic leaders hoped to send a Cuban American to Congress.
The district was diverse, and the campaign grew contentious when Lee Atwater, the Republican national chairman, declared the vacant seat should go to a Cuban American. It turned into a very divisive, ethnically-oriented campaign.
Her victory put the seat in Republican hands for the first time since its creation in , and Ros-Lehtinen became the first Hispanic woman and the first Cuban American elected to Congress. For the majority of her career, Ros-Lehtinen won re-election with comfortable margins of victory, including several cycles where she ran unopposed. Later in her tenure, redistricting meant she lost the Florida Keys and Miami Beach but kept Little Havana and added new areas in Miami with a high concentration of Hispanic voters.
She served on Foreign Affairs for her entire career and on Government Reform until Ros-Lehtinen also served on three other committees for one term each: Budget th Congress, — , Rules th Congress, — , and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence th Congress, — But she enlisted the help of Dante Druno Fascell, the Democratic chairman of Foreign Affairs, who represented a neighboring Florida district. In she helped build support for passage of the Cuban Democracy Act which restricted subsidiaries of American companies from trading with Cuba.
Ros-Lehtinen passionately argued that the boy should remain in Florida. Ros-Lehtinen earned support among her Cuban-American constituents for her tenacious approach to the Castro government and her larger commitment to human rights. I love to work on advancing the cause of freedom for Cuba.
In Congress, she authored legislation condemning the use of human shields, brought attention to the plight of impoverished women in Africa and the Middle East, and sought to prevent unstable governments from securing nuclear weapons. In , at the opening of the th Congress — , Ros-Lehtinen became the top-ranking Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, moving ahead of more senior colleagues to attain the post.
In the th Congress — , when Republicans reclaimed the House majority, Ros-Lehtinen won the gavel as chair of the committee, making her the first woman ever to lead Foreign Affairs. As chairperson, Ros-Lehtinen continued to voice her opposition to the communist regime of Cuba and to promote human rights around the world. She emphasized the dangers of extremist groups and worked to enact economic sanctions against countries like Iran to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons. She continued to serve on the committee until she left the House at the end of the th Congress — Alongside her foreign policy specialty, Ros-Lehtinen took a keen interest in domestic affairs that directly affected her South Florida district.
She opposed offshore drilling near the Florida coastline and helped secure federal money to dredge the Miami River.
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