With the House meeting in special session on Tuesday and with 40 new members taking their seats, incoming Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, named committee chairs on Monday morning.
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By Nancy Smith
On Election Night, Marco Rubio said he knows Washington is a place that changes people in a way that "they forget why they ran for office." He told his supporters in a victory speech that night, "I ask for your prayers for me and my family, that we will not change."
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A Wall Street Journal stock picker likes the prospects at Florida Power & Light.
Calling utility companies "energized" for growth generally, Reshma Kapadia noted that FPL (NextEra Energy, NEE) is currently trading at 12 times next year's expected earnings, "among the cheapest stocks in the sector."
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Ron Klein wasn't the National Education Association's only loser in Congress this year.
The teachers' union targeted 10 U.S. House races this election, but in a horrendous year for its subsidiary (i.e., the Democratic Party), the NEA could only manage a 3-7 win-loss record.
Klein, D-Boca Raton, was defeated by Republican Allen West by 10 percentage points. Other specially backed union-backed candidates lost in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Texas. Victories were notched in New York, North Carolina and Ohio.
By Kevin Derby
Rick Perry, the sharpshootin' governor of Texas, will become the next chairman of the Republican Governors Association, according to Politico.
The same governor who's releasing a book attacking liberal Washington policies and just this morning was reported to have called Social Security a Ponzi Scheme is expected to get the RGA helm next week at the association's conference in San Diego.
By Kevin Derby
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine weighed in on Friday on Karen Thurman stepping down as chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party.
By Kevin Derby
In an announcement today, still floating on Republican wins that swept over Florida Nov. 2, Republican Party of Palm Beach County Chairman Sid Dinerstein officially announced his candidacy to lead the GOP at the state level.
"Our challenge is to lock in these gains and create a virtuous cycle of campaigns and victories," he said in a released statement. "Here in deep blue Palm Beach County, and across our great state, many Best Practices have percolated up. Our job is to capture, multiply, automate and distribute them to all 67 counties."
By Kevin Derby
On Friday, incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, continued to name members of his leadership team -- tapping Sen. Evelyn Lynn of Ormond Beach to serve as Republican Conference chair and appointing two newly elected Republicans,Sen. Anitere Flores of Miami and Sen. David Simmons of Altamonte Springs, to serve as majority whips.
By Kevin Derby
Karen Thurman announced on Friday that she was stepping down as chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party, following the route of her Partys candidates at the polls last week.
While Democrats lost every single race for statewide office, placed third in the U.S. Senate race, saw their numbers shrink in the Legislature to controlling less than a third of the House and only 12 of the senates 40 seats, and saw the loss of four members of Congress, Thurman insisted there had been gains made during her tenure.
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