If the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee isn't bailing on behinder-and-behinder candidate Patrick Murphy, why have they suddenly dropped Florida as a target state?
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Last week, the Senate again blocked $1.1 billion in desperately needed funding to help research, prevent, and fight the spread of the Zika virus—all for political reasons.
The president of the United States lands with all the majesty of Air Force One, waiting to exit the front door and stride down the rolling staircase to the red-carpeted tarmac. Except that there is no rolling staircase. He is forced to exit -- as one China expert put it rather undiplomatically -- through "the ass" of the plane.
Who is the Commission on Presidential Debates to decide which presidential candidates the American people get to see in a televised debate? I ask you.
The animal kingdom will have lost one of its staunchest defenders when the Oval Office is abandoned by Barack Obama, who through a series of critical, administrative rulemakings has done more to protect animals than any other president in recent memory.
President Obama would have you believe everything about the American economy is rosy. It isn't. Far from it.
The one great service of Donald Trump's extended peregrinations on immigration policy is to have demonstrated how, in the end, there's only one place to go.
In case you're wondering, Palm Beach County continued its love affair with "wild and wacky" -- once again voting to keep probably the most infamous supervisor of elections since Theresa LePore immortalized Palm Beach with the butterfly ballot in 2000.
Because truth in labeling laws are among the laws from which Washington feels exempt, the titles of congressional legislation often take liberties with the facts (e.g., the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). The Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act, however, precisely names the ailment for which it is the remedy.
Even before he takes the gavel, Senate President-designate Joe Negron returns to Tallahassee a wounded duck.
Personal interest got the best of him.
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By Kevin Derby
President Barack Obama signed the “Girls Count Act" into law on Friday. The bill from Republican presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., carves out funds from current foreign aid programs to create birth registries in underdeveloped countries.
By Kevin Derby
Former Jacksonville City Council President Matt Carlucci is staying on the Florida Commission on Ethics.
By Kevin Derby
Daniel Diaz Leyva came up short against Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, D-Miami, in the 2014 elections but the Republican attorney landed on the Miami Dade College District Board of Trustees.
By Kevin Derby
With the Castro regime threatening to charge democracy activist Gustavo Pérez Silverio as a terrorist, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., one of the leading congressional Republican voices on foreign affairs, took to the House floor on Thursday.
By Kevin Derby
This week, news broke that U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
By Kevin Derby
Republicans at the state and national level are bashing Democratic congressional candidate Annette Taddeo for holding a fundraising event this week with U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Reports have emerged that Democrats helped run a straw candidate for Congress back in 2010 in this South Florida district and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) have called on Taddeo to distance herself from the DCCC for its role in the 2010 campaign. Taddeo is running for her party's nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla.
By Kevin Derby
Gov. Rick Scott is bouncing back in his second term. That’s what a St. Leo University poll released Thursday shows.
By Kevin Derby
On Wednesday night, U.S. Rep. Curt Clawson, R-Fla., took to the House floor, insisting sending taxpayer funds to arm Syrian rebels was not helping in the fight against Islamic State (IS) terrorism.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis voted to back the Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act on Wednesday, noting it would help prevent a trade war with Canada and Mexico.
By Kevin Derby
The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) called on U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., to stand against U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s, D-Nev., plan to block the Senate appropriations process. Murphy is running for the Democratic nomination to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016.
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