Protect Florida’s environment and water quality by pursuing federal solutions to red tide and algae blooms without expanding federal bureaucracy, creating burdensome regulations, or costing American jobs.

W. Gregory Steube · Florida · Republican

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As your representative, I’ve fought for federal solutions to red tide and algae blooms. We must protect our beautiful state and country for future generations to enjoy the beauty of our land. Our responsibility to conserve our environment can be achieved without creating policies that expand the federal bureaucracy, create burdensome regulations, or cost American jobs. Clean water and a healthy environment for the Suncoast must always be a top priority.

Steube commits to pursuing federal solutions to red tide and algae blooms and to prioritizing clean water and a healthy environment while avoiding new bureaucracy, burdensome regulations, or job losses.

Environment & Water Quality – Congressman Steube
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Evidence

As your representative, I’ve fought for federal solutions to red tide and algae blooms. We must protect our beautiful state and country for future generations to enjoy the beauty of our land. Our responsibility to conserve our environment can be achieved without creating policies that expand the federal bureaucracy, create burdensome regulations, or cost American jobs. Clean water and a healthy environment for the Suncoast must always be a top priority.

Official issue page restates the pledge in the claim and shows it remains part of Steube’s active public position as of the lookback period, but it is not itself evidence of enacted delivery.

unresolved same_term

Environment & Water Quality – Congressman Steube
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This bipartisan legislation seeks to ensure that essential services related to harmful algal blooms continue to receive federal funding in the event of a lapse in appropriations. ... this bipartisan legislation takes an important step in prioritizing Florida’s environment despite ongoing partisan gridlock in Washington.

Shows Steube took concrete legislative action on harmful algal blooms by cosponsoring HAB emergency-funding legislation, but this was in a prior Congress and does not establish final delivery of the broader promise.

partial same_term A for effort

Steube Joins Colleagues in Introducing Legislation to Combat Harmful Algal Blooms in Florida – Congressman Steube
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Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today cosponsored H.R. 74, the Protecting Local Communities from Harmful Algal Blooms Act, and H.R. 565, the South Florida Clean Coastal Waters Act of 2021, to help protect and improve Florida’s water quality.

Confirms additional concrete legislative work on algal blooms and Florida water quality, but again only partial effort evidence, not proof of enacted federal solutions.

partial same_term A for effort

Steube Cosponsors Legislation to Improve and Protect Florida’s Waterways – Congressman Steube
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U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) led a letter calling for the House Committee on Natural Resources to advance H.R. 642, the Myakka Wild and Scenic River Act of 2025.

Shows a serious concrete action in the same term to advance a water-quality-related conservation bill, but it addresses a river designation rather than red tide/algae-bloom policy specifically and does not show enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

Rep. Steube Leads Myakka River Letter to Natural Resources Committee – Congressman Steube
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Protecting our water quality and wildlife has been one of my priorities since entering Congress. To do so, I introduced H.R. 642, the Myakka Wild and Scenic River Act of 2025, to add the 34-mile segment of the Myakka River in Sarasota County, Florida, to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Primary-source letter confirms Steube introduced and actively pressed a federal water-quality conservation measure in the current Congress; however, it does not show final passage or a direct red-tide/algae-bloom solution.

partial same_term A for effort

Rep.-Steube-Letter-to-Committee-on-Natural-Resources-H.R.-642.pdf
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

The evidence shows Steube took concrete federal actions related to the promise, including cosponsoring harmful algal bloom and Florida water-quality bills in 2021 and advancing the Myakka Wild and Scenic River Act in 2025. Those actions materially support the pledge to pursue federal solutions without emphasizing new bureaucracy or regulation. However, the record provided does not show that these measures were enacted or that a clear federal solution to Florida red tide and algae blooms was delivered. Because there is meaningful legislative effort but no demonstrated completed outcome, the promise is best scored as partial rather than delivered.

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