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.
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.
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George H.W. Bush, 41st and oldest living United States president, is doing "fine" after he broke a bone in his neck during a fall Wednesday at his Kennebunkport, Maine home.
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Pointing to a time crunch, a Leon County circuit judge Wednesday gave the Florida Legislature little more than two months to draw new congressional districts and to defend them in court.
Judge George S. Reynolds III issued an order that said a special legislative session to redraw districts and a subsequent trial must be finished by Sept. 25. The order came after the Florida Supreme Court last week tossed out eight congressional districts because it found that lawmakers violated a 2010 constitutional amendment aimed at preventing gerrymandering.
In the wake of the recent murders in a South Carolina church, the killer's hope of igniting a race war produced the opposite effect. Blacks and whites in South Carolina came together to condemn his act and the race hate behind it.
It's a time-honored political tradition -- officeholders flying around the country and farther than that even -- on the taxpayers' dime.
It's also one of my pet peeves.
Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera hit YouTube Wednesday morning to announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, but he chose a massive warehouse at All-American Containers in Miami to make the formal announcement.
With President Barack Obama commuting the sentences of 46 drug offenders this week from federal prisons, Florida TaxWatch says leaders in the Sunshine State can take a lesson.
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