Castor chaired the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, created by Speaker Pelosi in January 2019. The committee had investigatory and advisory authority but no legislative jurisdiction. H.R. 9 was routed through the standing Energy and Commerce and Foreign Affairs committees rather than through Castor's own committee, structurally limiting her legi
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· 2019-01-01
The Republican-controlled Senate never brought H.R. 9 to a vote. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell read the bill a second time on May 7, 2019 and placed it on the Senate Legislative Calendar, where it died. The bill had zero path to enactment, making it a messaging vehicle.
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· 2019-05-07
Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16), whose Sarasota/Bradenton district faces coastal climate vulnerability comparable to Castor's Tampa Bay district, was one of only three House Republicans to vote YEA. His same-state defection, driven by shared Florida geographic risk, received minimal attention compared to Fitzpatrick and Stefanik in national coverage.
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· 2019-05-02
Castor was the sole lead sponsor of H.R. 9, introduced on March 27, 2019. Congress.gov (the official legislative database) and Castor's own May 2, 2019 press release both confirm her sponsorship. The bill attracted 224 cosponsors, including 223 Democrats and 1 Republican (Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania).
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· 2019-03-27
Kathy Castor voted YEA on Roll Call 184 (H.R. 9, Climate Action Now Act) on May 2, 2019. The House Clerk's official XML roll records 'Castor (FL)Aye' at line 13. The vote passed 231–190 with 228 Democrats and 3 Republicans (Fitzpatrick PA, Stefanik NY, Buchanan FL) in support. The prior 'yea_unverified' designation is superseded by primary evidence.
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· 2019-05-02
Castor voted against both President George W. Bush (who proposed TARP) and her own party's presidential nominee Barack Obama (who supported it), making her Nay vote a rare dual-defection from leaders of both parties.
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· 2008-10-23
By 2010, Castor had consolidated her TARP opposition into the canonical formulation 'did not address the root causes of the economic crisis or provide enough accountability,' which she used in her June 30, 2010 official statement on the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank).
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· 2010-06-30
Castor's October 3, 2008 statement on the Senate-amended bill first introduced the 'root causes' framing: 'The bailout bill does not address the fundamental root causes of the economic crisis or the concerns I have consistently expressed'—she also criticized the lack of mandatory mortgage 'workout' provisions and taxpayer protections.
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· 2008-10-03
Castor's September 29, 2008 statement explaining her first Nay vote cited insufficient help for middle-class families, lack of taxpayer protections, and her experience assisting hundreds of Tampa Bay families at foreclosure workshops—it did not mention 'root causes.'
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· 2008-09-29
Castor voted 'No' a second time on H.R. 1424 (the Senate-amended TARP bill), Roll Call 681, October 3, 2008—the bill passed 263-171 and was signed into law by President Bush the same day; Castor was again the sole Florida Democrat to vote Nay.
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· 2008-10-03
Kathy Castor voted 'No' on H.R. 3997, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (TARP), Roll Call 674, September 29, 2008—the bill failed 205-228 with Democrats voting 140-95 in favor and Castor as the sole Florida Democrat to vote Nay.
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· 2008-09-29
Castor has maintained a consistent 14-year record of securing federal water infrastructure funding for Tampa Bay through every biennial WRDA/WRRDA bill since at least 2014, when she announced the WRRDA provided Port Tampa Bay 'new leverage in moving vital dredging projects.'
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· 2014-05-21
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed H.R. 8812 by a 61-2 vote and the Senate EPW Committee approved its version unanimously, making the final floor votes overwhelmingly bipartisan and diminishing the individual significance of any single member's Yea vote—the committee markup and Castor's provision-insertion negotiations were the more
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· 2024-06-27
Section 1145 of WRDA 2024 broke a 12-year stalemate on Florida beach renourishment by directing the Army Corps to accept less-than-perpetual easements, providing a two-year window for Florida's enumerated hurricane and storm damage reduction projects to continue under previously authorized agreements, and expressing a sense of Congress that the minimum estat
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· 2025-01-02
Castor secured four Tampa Bay-specific provisions in WRDA 2024: a $420 million authorization for Port Tampa Bay Deep Draft Navigation (one of only four navigation projects in the country), a MacDill Air Force Base climate resilience project for hurricane and storm damage reduction, a Pinellas County beach renourishment provision addressing the long-standing
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· 2024-12-10
Castor voted Yea a second time on the Senate-amended Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act on December 10, 2024, which passed 399-18 and was signed into law by President Biden on January 4, 2025.
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· 2024-12-10
Kathy Castor voted Yea on H.R. 8812 (Roll Call 358), Water Resources Development Act of 2024, July 22, 2024—the bill passed 359-13 with 182 Democrats and 177 Republicans voting Yea.
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· 2024-07-22
[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Bachelor's degree or higher: 41.5%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Hispanic population share: 28%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership rate: 56.6%
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