
Presidential Derby
Cliff Stearns and Jim Matheson Want NFL to Crack Down on Steroids
Florida Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns and Congressman Jim Matheson, D-Utah, want to know what the National Football League and the League's Players Association are doing to combat human growth hormones (HGH) in their sport.
The pair teamed up to send a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Players Association Director DeMaurice Smith demanding an answer. The representatives also insisted that Congress should keep out over continued negotiations between NFL owners and players -- a boiling pot that threatens to impact the 2011-12 football season.
An Emergent Vern Buchanan Pushes to Slow Foreign Aid
Connie Mack, David Rivera Attack White House for Stalling on Latin American Free-Trade Deals
Two Florida Republicans in Congress are calling out the White House, urging the Obama administration to get cracking on submitting free-trade agreements to Colombia and Panama.
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, is spending the week leading a congressional delegation that is visiting those two Latin American nations and Mexico. Mack met with both Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli and renewed his call for the White House to send the two trade agreements to Congress.