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.
A Piper Aircraft press release issued Wednesday paints a grim picture for employees of this Vero Beach general aviation manufacturer.
Some 150 of the firm's 750 employees are facing layoff.
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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. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who sits on the Senate Science and Space Subcommittee, cheered NASA’s success as the New Horizons satellite soared by Pluto, relaying information it back to Earth.
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U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., showcased a bill on Wednesday to help Americans wanting to launch new businesses.
In a House Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee meeting on Tuesday on Medicare, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., said prescription drug abuse was becoming an increasingly large problem under the Medicare umbrella.
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Part of the House leadership as deputy majority whip, U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., scored a win on Tuesday as the House passed his Private Investment in Housing Act of 2015. The bill gives the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) authorization to create a “demonstration project that will encourage private-sector entities to retrofit and modernize a limited number of HUD multi-family housing units at absolutely no cost to taxpayer dollars.”
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Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell is the new president of the Florida Sheriffs Association (FSA), the second woman to hold that position.
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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.
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.
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