A Florida congressman scored a major victory on Wednesday night as the U.S. House passed his bill, without opposition, to save Medicare Advantage from being gutted by President Barack Obama’s federal health-care law.
Jeb Bush, who converted to Catholicism, has a papal problem -- and taking a page from the liberal playbook isn't exactly helping.
Appearing on Sean Hannity‘s show on Fox News this week, Bush was asked about Pope Francis‘ encylical on climate change.
“I think religion ought to be about making us better as people, less about things [that] end up getting into the political realm,” Bush told Hannity.
Bush doubled down on his opposition to the pope at an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn't lost her iron grip on the Democratic primary in Florida, flying high above party rivals in the Sunshine State, a new poll shows.
Clinton leads a Qunnipiac poll of Florida Democrats released Thursday morning with 64 percent. Vice President Joe Biden, who has left the door open to another presidential bid, takes distant second with 9 percent. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is finding a niche with liberal voters looking for an alternative to Clinton, takes third with 8 percent.
Florida Republicans are closely divided between two favorite sons running for the GOP’s presidential nomination, a new poll finds.
Quinnipiac University released a poll Thursday morning showing former Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., running neck and neck in their home turf. Bush leads the poll with 20 percent followed by Rubio at 18 percent.
Republicans in the Florida congressional delegation are looking for answers after a data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in which more than 4 million federal employees had their data stolen with many signs pointing to China as the culprit.
Two South Florida Republicans serving in the Florida House will be part of the Republican State Leadership Committee’s (RSLC) Future Majority Project (FMP) as the GOP looks to win over minority voters for the 2016 elections. The RSLC’s mission is “to elect down-ballot, state-level Republican officeholders.”
Republican state Reps. Jose Felix Diaz of Miami and Jose Oliva of Hialeah were named to the FMP board for the 2016 election cycle on Wednesday, joining more than 25 other Republicans from across the nation. Oliva is on track to become House speaker after the 2018 elections.
Freshman Florida Congressman Carlos Curbelo, along with five colleagues, launched a resolution Tuesday condemning academic boycotts of Israel.
Various groups have floated academic boycotts of Israel, and the American Studies Association (ASA) adopted a boycott measure at the end of 2013. First adopted at the controversial 2001 Durban Conference -- from which Israel and the United States pulled out after it equated Zionism with racism -- enemies of Israel continue to push Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) efforts.
A new poll shows former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a slight lead over Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush in Florida, the largest swing state on the map in presidential elections, even as a majority of voters say she can’t be trusted. Clinton leads other Republicans by far wider margins.
U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., showcased his pride in federal funding for the Everglades contained in the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill passed Tuesday by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee.
Businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump launched a bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, swinging away at two presidential candidates from Florida who are also running for the Republican nod: former Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.
While he flirted with running for president before, including for the Reform Party nomination in 2000 and the Republican nomination in 2012, Trump announced on Tuesday morning that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination and called for the “right people” to lead the nation.
