U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, endorsed his fellow member of the Florida delegation U.S. Rep. Connie Mack for the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012. Miller endorsed Mack at a media event in Pensacola on Monday.
With a month to go until New Hampshire voters take part in the nations first presidential primary, two of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination there -- former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah, both of whom have invested heavily in the Granite State -- continued to build their organizations in that pivotal state.
Leading in the polls of New Hampshire and looking to reassure conservatives that he is dependable on their issues, Romney unveiled two endorsements on Monday that he hopes will help him nail down the Granite State.
Congress will work all week to wrap up the end of the year legislation with the hopes that the first session of the 112th Congress can conclude by weeks end.
Mainstream media pundits gave Newt Gingrich "A's" for his stage performance in Des Moines on Saturday night.
It was a week of risk-taking in the 2012 presidential race.
Wanting to call the Christmas season Christmas season -- which hasn't been politically correct in Florida for decades -- turned state Sen. Stephen Wise into my new favorite hero.
Even as the main events for the 2011 legislative session got started in earnest this week, sideshows seemed intent to steal center stage.
Gov. Rick Scott's annual budget speech -- at the Capitol this year -- was crashed by a correspondent for a satirical news show. The official Christmas tree made its appearance. Even one of the state's main political figures got an entertainment deal of sorts, when Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio signed a contract to write a memoir scheduled to be released next fall.
WASHINGTON -- On Oct. 12, 1948, the campaign train of Tom Dewey, Republican nominee against President Harry Truman, pulled into Beaucoup, Ill., where, from the rear platform, he would speak to about 1,000 people. Before he began, the engineer mistakenly caused the train to lurch a few feet backward, frightening some but injuring none.
A new study on federal spending gives Republicans fiscal ammunition to fight Democrats' relentless push for tax hikes on Capitol Hill. It also gives Democrats a tool to go after "rich" retirees.
The failure of the budget supercommittee to agree on $1.2 trillion in deficit-reduction measures over 10 years has intensified pressure on the GOP to embrace "revenue enhancements."
