Meghan McCain, the outspoken daughter of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is on Team Jeb. Speaking with Larry King on Politicking on Ora.TV, McCain said she was backing former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla, for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. While her father is on the sidelines, he has encouraged his ally U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to enter the presidential primaries.
Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., announced that the state unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 percent in December as the state added 11,500 jobs. When Scott took office at the start of 2011, the state unemployment rate stood at 11.1 percent.
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From his perch as chairman of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., is calling to give the secretary of Veterans Affairs more power to discipline incompetent senior executive service (SES) employees. Miller introduced a bill giving the VA secretary more flexibility in disciplining underperfoming SES employees, including reducing pensions, reducing time on forced paid administrative leave, reforming appraisals for bonus and adding more transparency.
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U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., the chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, doubled down on his support of the FairTax proposal on Thursday.
Across Northeast Florida and the nation, citizens are spending billions of dollars and hours navigating a complex tax code time and money that could be better spent growing our economy and creating jobs, Crenhaw said on Thursday. Putting a FairTax in place solves that issue and deserves immediate consideration by Congress.
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U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., one of the senior members sitting on the U.S. House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, wrote President Barack Obama on Thursday, vowing to work with the White House on free trade agreements. Buchanan supports the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
"In your State of the Union address you expressed a willingness to work with Congress on expanding international trade opportunities that will help grow the U.S. economy and create American jobs. Offer accepted, Buchanan wrote.
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Clint Eastwood's movie "American Sniper" dominated the box office race over the long Martin Luther King weekend with a gross of $103.5 million. That's more than twice as high as the previous January opening weekend record. It received a rare "A+" CinemaScore from people who saw it, suggesting word-of-mouth will be wildly positive.
