Gov. Rick Scott announced on Friday that the state unemployment rate dropped to 5.5 percent in June, the lowest since March 2008, as 12,200 new jobs were added to the private sector. The unemployment rate had stood at 5.7 percent in May.
A new poll finds U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., ahead of U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., in the Democratic primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016 but many Democrats remain undecided. Rubio is running for the Republican presidential nomination and is not seeking a second term in the Senate.
After two unsuccessful U.S. Senate bids and losing to Rick Scott in an ugly gubernatorial primary back in 2010, Bill McCollum looked finished as a candidate for statewide office. But McCollum has a real shot if he wants to make a third Senate campaign.
McCollum is a familiar, perhaps overly familiar, figure to Florida Republicans. First winning a legislative seat in 1976, McCollum was elected to Congress and served 20 years, emerging on the national stage during the Clinton impeachment but losing to Bill Nelson in 2000 for an open Senate seat.
The two Florida Republicans in charge of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee this week urged major reforms to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) even as new reports emerged that about 238,000 veterans died before they could receive medical care due to VA’s backlog.
There’s no clear favorite in the Republican primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016, though U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla. is ahead of the other candidates, a new poll shows.
U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., announced this week that he is backing “Kate’s Law,” a proposal from U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., to ensure deported illegals who return to the U.S. face at least five years in jail, and cutting off federal funds to states and cities that resist current immigration laws and offer sanctuary to illegals.
Even as he ramps up the rhetoric against Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., moved into the U.S. House leadership on Wednesday as U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., named him to the Republican whip team.
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., showcased a bill on Wednesday to help Americans wanting to launch new businesses.
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.
Lopez-Cantera unveiled a Web video in which he announced his bid and, as Rubio did in 2010, made the cases for American exceptionalism and claimed Washington, D.C., was broken.
Members of the Florida congressional delegation continued to react to President Barack Obama’s agreement with Iran over that nation’s nuclear program with even Democrats from the Sunshine State expressing concerns over the deal.
Republicans lined up against the agreement, insisting it would hurt national security and would negatively impact Israel.
