The list reflected the priorities I heard from families, farmers, veterans, and small-business owners from Panama City to Tallahassee. It included 12 ideas to advance free market principles, support economic growth, address erosion concerns along the Apalachicola River, rebuild the Tyndall Range, and tackle other challenges facing Florida.
That handwritten list now hangs framed in my office, serving as a roadmap for my time in Congress.
While I am proud of the achievements and progress we have made on those 12 priorities, there is one issue that is absent from that original list. Not because it wasn’t important, but because I didn’t yet have a full understanding of the problem.
If I could make that list again, I would add a 13th common sense priority: right-to-repair.
