The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that former Gov. Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise super-PAC might not be able to hit the $100 million mark by the end of June:
A super-PAC backing former Florida governor Jeb Bush is likely to fall short of collecting $100 million by the end of this month, despite widespread expectations that the group would hit that record-breaking sum, according to people close to the operation.
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Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, is drawing increasingly closer to a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Kasich ran for the GOP nomination briefly in 1999 when he was the U.S. House budget chairman but he quickly threw his support behind then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
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From his perch as chairman of the U.S. Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., cheered the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill clearing the House on Tuesday.
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Florida Republicans looked to put U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and a South Florida Democrat on the defensive on Wednesday, demanding an apology for his group’s role in running “straw candidate" Roly Arrojo for Congress in 2010.
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With supporters saying a free-market approach would spur more competition and more choices for patients, a House panel Tuesday approved a proposal that would eliminate key regulations on building hospitals.
"Despite everything," the often interesting analyst Jamelle Bouie writes in Slate -- "everything" includes "the email controversy, foreign donors and the Clinton Foundation" -- "Hillary is in good shape." Good enough to leave her party "still positioned for victory."
Florida’s first, true “water farm” exceeds all expectations, according to state officials. An expanded Caulkins Water Farm on 3,200 acres near Indiantown holds the promise of relief to the St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon estuaries from annual deluges of polluted water -- up to half of the water storage needed to reduce annual discharges by 90 percent.
State lawmakers continued to hammer out budget allocations this week, with Florida's education system standing to receive record funding for the 2015-2016 school year.
Large funding numbers for the state's school system were tossed around by Gov. Rick Scott, who has prioritized increased funding to improve Florida's schools and keep the state on the right track for academic success.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., now running for the Republican presidential nomination, slammed President Barack Obama’s handling of Islamic State (IS) forces in the Middle East.
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