"On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it's important for him (Putin) to give me space. ... This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced two Tampa Bay-area residents were arrested Thursday for alleged workers compensation fraud.
Yvonne C. Timmons, 61, of St. Petersburg, and Willie Lee Kendrick, 52, of Palmetto, were charged in separate cases with filing false or misleading information in order to fraudulently obtain workers compensation insurance benefits, a release from Atwaters office stated.
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By ARTHUR C. BROOKS, EDWIN J. FEULNER AND WILLIAM KRISTOL
Arthur C. Brooks, Edwin J. Fuelner and William Kristol
In an election year, it's all too easy for politicians to defer hard choices until after the polls have closed in November. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) has taken the more difficult road with his "Path to Prosperity" budget.
The House on Thursday approved a 90-day extension for federal highway funding, a move that will avert a shutdown of the program if the Senate goes along.
Democrats had pushed for a two-year bill approved previously by the Senate, but substantial differences between the two chambers stalled any hope of a compromise.
Current funding -- as well as the authority to levy the 18-cent federal gasoline tax -- will expire at midnight Saturday unless the House and Senate reach an agreement.
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Maryland -- along with the District of Columbia and Wisconsin -- holds its Republican presidential primary on Tuesday and all signs indicate that Mitt Romney will take most of the 37 delegates that the Old State Line will be sending to the Republican convention in Tampa come August.
Plans for a Miami-Orlando passenger rail service call for fast trains to roll up and down Florida's central east coast -- but not to stop at any of the cities along a 140-mile stretch from Martin to Brevard counties.
"All Aboard Florida" would run on existing Florida East Coast Railway tracks between Miami and Cocoa, and then use some 40 miles of new rails to connect inland to Orlando.
FEC Industries' announcement of the route last week initially excited Treasure and Space coast residents who have been without coastal rail service since Amtrak departed in 1968.
Maryland -- along with the District of Columbia and Wisconsin -- holds its Republican presidential primary on Tuesday and all signs indicate that Mitt Romney will take most of the 37 delegates that the Old State Line will be sending to the Republican convention in Tampa come August.
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A poll released on Thursday finds that most likely voters think that the Supreme Court will overturn the federal health-care law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010. While 50 percent of those surveyed think the law should be overturned, 54 percent think the court, which listened to three days of oral arguments this week as Florida and 25 other states offered a constitutional challenge to the law, will strike it down. While 37 percent of those surveyed want to see the law upheld, only 26 percent think it will be.
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Saying he wants oil companies to "succeed," President Obama on Thursday renewed his attack on the industry and again called for an elimination of its "taxpayer subsidies."
"Right now, the biggest oil companies are raking in record profits -- profits that go up every time folks like these pull into a gas station. But on top of these record profits, oil companies are also getting billions a year in taxpayer subsidies -- a subsidy theyve enjoyed year after year for the last century," Obama said in the White House Rose Garden.
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