While Rep. Tom Rooney's bill requiring removal of criminal illegal aliens languishes in Congress, federal authorities refused to take custody of an estimated 300,000 deportable immigrants.
A House subcommittee subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security last Friday for the names of the unaccounted-for illegal aliens accused of "low-level" crimes during the past three years.
The South Florida Water Management District may be breaking state law in re-awarding land leases without competitive bids.
The SFWMD board last month extended leases on 4,701 acres in Glades County to the Old River Cattle Co.
According to district reports, the cattle company is paying SFWMD $55,381 in annual rent on the land -- or $11.78 per acre. The rental charge has increased 3 percent annually, based on the Consumer Price Index, the district said.
Amid revelations that the Obama administration considered bailing out the solar company Solyndra, a House subcommittee on Thursday voted to subpoena White House records related to the failed firm's financial and political connections.
Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Oversight Subcommittee, said the subpoena was necessary because the White House is "slow-walking" all requests for information.
"We want to get to the bottom of this," Stearns said of the bankrupt company that took $528 million in federal loans down with it.
Throwing some cold water on casino fever, the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling says the state isn't addressing the addiction problems it has now.
Republicans smell blood in the coastal waters off South Florida's 20th Congressional District, where Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is running for a fifth term.
Four GOP hopefuls are vying for the right to take on the Fort Lauderdale congresswoman, who also chairs the Democratic National Committee. Coming off the 2010 elections, when Florida Republicans picked up four House seats, Wasserman Schultz's challengers figure she's ripe for a fall in 2012.
"If not now, then when?" asks Joe Kaufman. "She's killing herself on the issues."
Some things are better left unsaid. And in these politically correct times, the "smart" move for state Sen. Alan Hays would have been to keep his mouth shut.
Acknowledging that "the bull's-eye on my back has gotten bigger," GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday denied that he had engaged in sexual harassment when he headed the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
But Cain confirmed that he had been "accused," and branded the allegations reported in a Politico story over the weekend "totally baseless and totally false."
"In my over 40 years of running businesses and corporations, I have never sexually harassed anyone," he told an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
