While he might be packing up to leave the White House at the start of next year, President Barack Obama is looking to shape this year’s elections in Florida by taking sides in the Democratic primaries.
Even as David Jolly heads to the sidelines, a new poll shows Marco Rubio is a clear favorite for the Republican nomination if he wants a second term.
St. Leo University released a poll on Friday showing Rubio in control if he runs for another term in the Senate. Rubio has opened the door to running for another term and has until next Friday to make up his mind to run again. Prominent Republicans including Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the NRSC leadership have urged Rubio to run for a second term.
Marco Rubio is spending this weekend pondering whether or not to run for a second term in the Senate. But despite his national prominence, if Rubio gets in the race, he won’t have an easy path to reelection.
A Florida congressman led the charge to successful amend the FY 2017 Defense Appropriations Act to increase aid to military families with autistic children.
Back in December, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced it would cut reimbursements for applied behavior analysis (ABA) services through TRICARE, the health-care program used by active duty and retired military personnel. The cuts took effect in April. Much of these cuts impacted assistance for autistic children.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Arizona Republican who has made national headlines due to his tough stances on illegal immigration and his continued insistence that President Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake, threw his support to Patrick Mooney for the Republican nod to replace Ron DeSantis in Congress.
While she has broken with the GOP on plenty of issues, ranging from same sex marriage to its presidential candidate, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen remains one of the leading Republicans in Congress when it comes to foreign policy.
The South Florida congresswoman showed this week that she is still a force on international issues even as she continues to insist she won’t back Donald Trump in November. Ros-Lehtinen chairs the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee and was the first woman to ever chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
This week, Florida Republican Congressman Vern Buchanan led a bipartisan effort to reform foster services.
Buchanan, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee, unveiled the “Family First Prevention Services Act" on Monday.
Marco Rubio is now reconsidering his decision not to run for a second term in the Senate after the jihadist terrorist attack in Orlando over the weekend.
While some Republicans have walked back their endorsements of presidential candidate Donald Trump in recent days, a Florida congressman threw his support to the GOP’s presumptive candidate.
Congressman Ted Yoho endorsed Trump on Saturday, praising the celebrity businessman as a political outsider like himself.
“I am excited to stand not just behind the American people’s choice for the next president of the United States of America but my personal choice: Mr. Donald Trump,” Yoho announced in his endorsement.
This week, the U.S. House passed the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act” (PROMESA) with the Florida delegation splitting on odd lines. The bill from U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wisc., would let Puerto Rico restructure its $72 billion debt in return for more federal oversight of local affairs.
