Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi joined federal authorities Thursday, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Personnel Management and the Food and Drug Administration, to announce the charges of 73 South Florida residents for their alleged participation in various schemes to defraud Medicare and Medicaid out of more than $262 million.
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., brought out the “Protecting Taxpayers and Communities from Local Detention Quotas Act.” The bill stops the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from getting “ into contracts that provide specific detention centers with prepaid, guaranteed numbers of detainees each day.” Deutch pointed to reports that at least 15 for-profit detention centers with ICE contracts have quotas.
Comments are now closed.
Gov. Rick Scott said on Thursday that Florida’s real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014 stood at almost $770 billion, up 2.7 percent from the year before, higher than the national increase of 2.2 percent, making Florida the state with the fourth largest GDP in the nation.
Comments are now closed.
This week, U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., voted to direct President Barack Obama to follow the War Powers Resolution and remove troops from Iraq and Syria. Yoho sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Comments are now closed.
The extra trips to the hardware store for plywood and nails to board up windows. The stocked pantries and cupboards with canned goods and water bottles. The spare batteries and flashlights stashed around the house. The safety drills to take shelter in hallways and bathtubs. These are all-too-familiar precautions we Floridians practice when hurricane season rolls around. Because, it is all about prevention.
Presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighed in on the data breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in which more than 4 million Americans had their information stolen. Rubio called for accountability at OPM and the White House while warning about China which is believed to have launched the cyberattack.
Comments are now closed.
Currently running for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., called the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina which left nine people dead as a “hate crime” and offered prayers and condolences.
Comments are now closed.
A Florida congressman took the lead in Congress to cut funds to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) while putting up safeguards for better customer service and ending the targeting of political opponents.
A Florida congressman scored a major victory on Wednesday night as the U.S. House passed his bill, without opposition, to save Medicare Advantage from being gutted by President Barack Obama’s federal health-care law.
Jeb Bush, who converted to Catholicism, has a papal problem -- and taking a page from the liberal playbook isn't exactly helping.
Appearing on Sean Hannity‘s show on Fox News this week, Bush was asked about Pope Francis‘ encylical on climate change.
“I think religion ought to be about making us better as people, less about things [that] end up getting into the political realm,” Bush told Hannity.
Bush doubled down on his opposition to the pope at an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
