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Gulfstream, the same race track leading the charge in the Legislature to collect an additional $45 million in revenue to boost prize purses, is the very track leading the charge among pari-mutuel o
Voters in South Carolina and Nevada went to the polls on Saturday as the presidential nomination contests continue.
Hillary Clinton is bringing her email scandal to Miami. Far be it from me to question the wisdom of such a move. It's her campaign after all.
Dan Webster is looking like he will be heading northwest in the aftermath of the latest round of congressional redistricting.
Recently, electricity ratepayers received a huge gift from the Supreme Court of the United States. The justices voted to issue a stay halting the implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan (CPP).
WASHINGTON -- Let's understand something about the fight to fill the Supreme Court seat of Antonin ("Nino") Scalia. This is about nothing but raw power. Any appeal you hear to high principle is phony -- brazenly, embarrassingly so.
Regrettably, President Obama's planned travel to Cuba is hardly a surprise. Instead, it is the latest addition to the litany of concessions to dictators that have come to characterize this administration.
Liberals who remember "Doonesbury" surely recall the joke about George H. W. Bush pledging to "put his manhood in a blind trust" so he could be Ronald Reagan's vice president.
How duplicitous that Apple would talk about privacy rights while refusing to help protect the national security of the country that gave it the chance to be founded.
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By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, unveiled a bill looking to ensure President Barack Obamas federal health-care law wont be used to bail out insurance companies.
Rubios bill would repeal risk coordinators included in Obamas health-care law and ensure Congress would be included if the federal government wants to cover insurance companies losses due to the law.
By Kevin Derby
Having been sworn in for a second term earlier this week, Florida CFO Jeff Atwater tipped his cards on Wednesday, offering highlights for what his agenda would be in the upcoming legislative session.
In an email sent out on Wednesday, Atwater wrote I intend to make Florida's insurance environment more consumer friendly in the upcoming session. Atwater also planned to back legislation to ensure our financial literacy programs reach a broader audience than ever before.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continued his fight for student loan reform on Wednesday. Rubio announced he was backing a bill from U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, and U.S. Sen. Richard Burr which would streamline federal student loan repayment. The bill also has the support of U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, R-Va. Rubio and Warner teamed up last year in pushing a bill reforming student loan repayments based on income, but the King-Burr proposal would also include set repayment rates as well.
By Kevin Derby
Florida House Speaker Pro Tempore Matt Hudson, R-Naples, announced on Wednesday that he will run for the Florida Senate seat currently held by Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, who faces term limits in 2016.
Today I officially filed paperwork to become a candidate for the Florida Senate, said Hudson. In the Senate, I promise to stand up for the same conservative principals as I have in the Florida House.
By Kevin Derby
One of the leading Republicans on international affairs took to the floor of the U.S. House on Wednesday to attack President Barack Obamas call to normalize relations with Cuba. U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., currently the chairwoman of the House Middle Eastern and North Africa Subcommittee, ripped into Obamas policy in the following speech:
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to strongly oppose the December 17th announcement by President Obama on policy changes toward the Cuban communist regime.
By Kevin Derby
From his perch on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio ripped into Islamic extremists for the terrorist attack in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo magazine office.
By Kevin Derby
Even as former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., draws closer to running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, he is drawing heavy fire from the right.
Bush announced last month that he was exploring a presidential bid. On Tuesday, Bush launched the Right to Rise leadership PAC to prepare for entering the fray.But the former Florida governor was attacked on the right on Wednesday as Constitutional Rights PAC, a libertarian-leaning group, launched petitions and an End Jeb 2016 website.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Curt Clawson, R-Fla., voted on Tuesday for U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to be speaker of the House.
Clawson explained his vote after U.S. House Speaker John Boehner kept the gavel.
By Kevin Derby
After his last-minute bid to oust U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, fell short on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., insisted he launched his effort to ensure Republicans pushed a principled agenda in Congress.
By Kevin Derby
Five Republican congressmen from Florida were at the center of the conservative attempt to oust House Speaker John Bohener, R-Ohio, from leadership and two of them are now paying the price.
Boehner moved swiftly against U.S. Rep. Rich Nugent, R-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., tossing the two Florida Republicans off of the Rules Committee. Webster had emerged as the chief threat to Boehner, winning 12 votes against the speaker.
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