President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday the full normalization of relations with Cuba including opening an embassy in Havana on July 20.
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U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, brought out a resolution condemning Syrian strongman Bashar Hafez al-Assad for using chemical weapons on the Syrian people. The resolution has the support of U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chairwoman of the U.S. House Middle East and North African Subcommittee.
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Government affairs firm Ballard Partners announced Wednesday the addition of Brady J. Benford as a partner in its Tallahassee office.
With 15 years' experience in government relations, Benford has advocated before both legislative and executive branches on a variety of high-profile issues such as casino gaming, pari-mutuel wagering, tobacco, alcohol, retail convenience stores, telecommunications and health care.
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Working Again PAC, a new super-PAC, launched on Wednesday to help former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., in his second bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Beltway Democrats continue to climb on former Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chairwoman Annette Taddeo’s bandwagon but Republicans continue to note that she isn’t from the South Florida district where she is running for Congress.
With the Obama administration and the Castro regime agreeing to have embassies in each nation’s capital as normalization efforts continue, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, criticized the decision.
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Currently making his "Religious Liberty Townhall Tour" of Iowa, where he won the 2008 caucus, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., offered his response to the U.S. Supreme Court making same-sex marriage the law of the land in a decision last week. Huckabee, making a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination, released his plan on how to protect religious liberty in light of last week’s decision on Tuesday afternoon.
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Former Republican Party of Florida Chairwoman Leslie Dougher is looking to return to Tallahassee, this time as a member of the Florida House of Representatives.
After almost two years in the works, state gambling regulators on Tuesday released the latest version of proposed pari-mutuel regulations governing everything from how much jockeys can weigh to the shape and size of horse tracks.
But industry insiders predict that the rules face a challenge if they aren't revised.
Hardly a day went by during this year’s legislative session -- and most sessions before that -- that a well-dressed gentleman didn’t give public comment on, well, most any bill which even had the remote possibility of passing through the Legislature.
