By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: January 21, 2011 10:07 AM
Two South Florida Republicans, members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, turned their fire away from Cuba this week to focus it on another communist country — China.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: January 19, 2011 3:55 AM
The new Republican majority in the U.S. House will vote Wednesday whether to repeal the health care law passed last year with the support of President Barack Obama. Florida’s congressional delegation is expected to mirror Congress as a whole and divide on partisan lines, with Republicans voting to repeal and Democrats voting to keep it in place.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: January 15, 2011 3:55 AM
While the RNC met in Washington Friday to determine who would be its next leader and the RPOF convenes this weekend in Orlando to determine who will replace outgoing chairman Sen. John Thrasher of Jacksonville, former Gov. Jeb Bush kicked off the Hispanic Action Network to help the GOP reach out to those voters.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: January 14, 2011 3:55 AM
Florida’s political leaders are continuing to pressure the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), hoping that more than half of the state will be declared as a disaster area due to the inclement weather.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: December 22, 2010 4:05 AM
Two Florida Republicans -- both of whom are possible candidates to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012 -- announced Tuesday that they would be chairing congressional subcommittees when their party takes over the U.S. House in January.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: December 17, 2010 7:30 AM
After stalling in the afternoon, the U.S. House voted just after midnight Friday to extend tax cuts initially backed by George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003 for all Americans. The bill, which also extends jobless benefits, now moves to President Barack Obama’s desk.
By: Lane Wright
| Posted: December 14, 2010 4:05 AM
If anyone has a chance of surviving a Mexican gang kidnapping, it might be Felix Batista. Then, again, if anyone should have been able to avoid getting kidnapped in the first place, he was at the top of the list.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: December 14, 2010 4:05 AM
With a host of much-better-known Republicans considering running for president in 2012, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has been raising his profile in recent days as he reflects on launching his own bid for the White House.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: December 9, 2010 4:05 AM
Two Florida Republicans were selected to lead committees in the U.S. House Wednesday, as U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was chosen to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee and U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller was named to lead the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: December 1, 2010 4:05 AM
Members of Florida’s congressional delegation are up in arms over the latest round of classified documents released by WikiLeaks, maintaining that the leaked information undermines American security and even calling for federal prosecution of WikiLeaks.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: October 20, 2010 4:05 AM
With buzz growing that he intends to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota headed to the Sunshine State Tuesday to back GOP candidates in November’s elections.
Rick Scott has won the strong support of congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, congressman Mario Diaz-Balart and congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, but the South Florida U.S. representatives have agreed to disagree on immigration issues.
