Florida House speaker puts together congressional redistricting committee
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Amid President Donald Trump’s push to get more Republicans in Congress, the Florida House of Representatives is putting together a mid-decade redistricting committee.
House Speaker Daniel Perez sent out a memo to lawmakers Thursday afternoon announcing his creation of the Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting.
Perez, in his memo, said that they were only focusing on the congressional map because “we do not have the capacity to engage in the full redistricting process” that lawmakers completed just a few years ago.
As of last week, Florida Senate President Ben Albritton had declined to comment on whether or not the Senate would be open to redrawing Florida’s maps.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has encouraged the Florida Legislature to redraw the Congressional map, despite his office drafting the map that Florida currently has in place.
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