In the two days after Hurricane Ian ripped into Florida on Sept. 28, killing at least 119 people and leaving more than $50 billion in insured losses in its wake, none of the state’s 16 Republican congressional representatives and neither of its two U.S. senators voted for a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through Dec. 16 despite it including nearly $21 billion for disaster relief.
Democrats, most notably Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) who is challenging two-term incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, are making a campaign issue of those votes, which saw the stopgap measure adopted on Sept. 30 by the Democrat-majority House in a 230-201 near-total party-line tally….