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Talk About a Wildfire

December 17, 2014 - 6:00pm

WASHINGTON -- First there's the spark, then the conflagration, followed by the litigation and then, surely, the movie.

Call it "Moonlight Fire," and prepare to suspend disbelief.

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December 17, 2014 - 6:00pm

Ander Crenshaw's ABLE Act Passes Senate

On Tuesday night, the U.S. Senate passed the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act, which U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., has been working on since 2006. The Senate passed the bill -- which creates tax-free savings accounts for disabled Americans for qualified expenses and which moved through the House earlier in the month -- on a 76-16 vote. It now heads to President Barack Obama who is expected to sign it into law.

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DBPR General Counsel Moving to Florida Lottery

According to sources within the Rick Scott administration, Layne Smith, general counsel for the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, is leaving DBPR to become general counsel for the Florida Lottery, effective Jan. 5.

The announcement of Smith's departure and his replacement at DBPR is expected later today.

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Ted Deutch: Human Rights Should be 'Front and Center' in Cuban Policy

Even as President Barack Obama calls for new outreach with Cuba, a Florida Democrat on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said Cuba has a long way to go and that Congress will look closely at whatever the White House offers.

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Carlos Lopez-Cantera: Obama Sets 'Dangerous Precedent' on Cuba

Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, R-Fla., slammed President Barack Obamas call for normalizing relations with communist Cuba on Wednesday. Lopez-Cantera is of Cuban ancestry.

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Rick Scott: Obama 'Giving in to a Tyrannical Government' in Cuba

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced the United States will, for the first time since the Eisenhower administration, resume full diplomatic relations with Cuba, drawing the fire of Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla. Wednesday also saw the exchange of aid worker Alan Gross -- who has been accused by the Castro regime of being a spy and imprisoned for five years -- for three Cuban spies.

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