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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Seventeen days before President Donald Trump, his spoken oath of office still lingering in the wintry air, lifts his left hand from Scripture (a leather-bound edition of "The Art of the Deal"), the Republican-controlled Congress will begin working. Fittingly, on Jan. 3 the First Branch of government will go first, flexing its somewhat atrophied Article I muscles.
Could the Florida Democratic Party and the Republican Party of Florida be any further apart than they are right now?
OK, I get it. Some Jewish people are upset with Dwight Bullard because he traveled with the Dream Defenders to Israel and their tour guide had ties to a terrorist organization.
The congressional echo chamber, on both sides of the aisle, constantly talks about the great reform fad: “payment for value” and “quality” care. And the Medicare version called MACRA passed nearly unanimously, with cheers from the marbled halls of the AMA tower. Obamacare too constantly harps on “quality.”
The goal of the recent, sometimes-unruly protests over the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States of America is unclear. Is it to make President-elect Trump preemptively resign? Is it to ensure that he never takes office—by any means necessary? Is it to exercise the protesters’ self-defined right to vandalize the property of others?
Witnesses who tuned in to Donald Trump and Barack Obama's post-election get-together can't have missed the change in the president-elect's demeanor and affect.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz may be a Jewish girl from New York, but I'm guessing she's discovered what it's like to be Amish. Certainly she has a good idea of what a shunning is.
The Republican Party resembles the man who told his psychiatrist, "I have an identity problem, and so do I." The party's leader is at best indifferent to, and often is hostile to, much of the party's recent catechism: limited government, the rule of law, a restrained executive, fiscal probity, entitlement reforms, free trade, the general efficiency and equity of markets allocating wealth and opportunity, and -- this matters especially -- the importance of decorousness in political discourse.
Democrats are in trouble, but not for the reason you might think.
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Part of the House leadership as deputy majority whip, U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., scored a win on Tuesday as the House passed his Private Investment in Housing Act of 2015. The bill gives the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) authorization to create a “demonstration project that will encourage private-sector entities to retrofit and modernize a limited number of HUD multi-family housing units at absolutely no cost to taxpayer dollars.”
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Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell is the new president of the Florida Sheriffs Association (FSA), the second woman to hold that position.
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Vowing to be “part of the solution, not part of the problem," Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera launched a bid on Wednesday for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by his ally U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. Rubio is not running for a second term as he aims for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
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Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera will be announcing his run for the U.S. Senate Wednesday in Miami, according to a release sent Tuesday by his campaign team.
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From his perch as chairman of the U.S. Senate Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the U.S. needed to hold Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman if he is caught again. Guzman has now made his second escape from a Mexican prison.
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President Barack Obama will have a hard time getting his deal with Iran over its nuclear program though Congress and he did not get a ringing endorsement from U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
By Kevin Derby
Former Florida Rep. Joe Pickens, now the president of St. Johns River State College, announced on Monday he was backing Bobby Payne for the Republican nomination to replace term-limited Rep. Charlie Van Zant, R-Keystone Heights.
By Kevin Derby
Former U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., now the president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), took off the gloves and tore into former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s economic plan. Clinton, the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination, unveiled her economic plan on Monday.
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U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., running for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 U.S. Senate race in Florida, said he had concerns with President Barack Obama’s deal with Iran on that nation’s nuclear program.
By Kevin Derby
Currently running for the Republican nomination to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., the chairman of the House National Security Subcommittee and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, ripped President Barack Obama’s deal with Iran over its nuclear program.
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