June 15, 2011 - 6:00pm
Connie Mack: Obama Needs to Get Serious About Free-Trade Agreements
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 16, 2011 - 10:04am
From his perch as chairman of the U.S. House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, Florida RepublicanConnie Mack went to bat on Wednesday for three free-trade agreements currently stalled in Washington.
Mack noted that U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk noted on Monday that Colombia had met all labor rights requirements and called for the Obama administration to get serious in pushing the agreements.
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Anthony Weiner Will Resign: Informed Sources
Submitted by Nancy Smith on June 16, 2011 - 9:50am
CNN reports Thursday morning that Rep. Anthony Weiner will resign.
Informed sources within the Democratic Party told the network he will announce his resignation later on Thursday. Though he has neither a career nor a job to fall back on, the often abrasive Democratic congressman from New York apparently will leave office effective ASAP.
Weiner has been under increasing pressure by Democrats to resign after repeated instances of sexting became public, after several women came forward charging him with "lewd conduct," and after he attempted to deny it.
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Mike Yost Attacks Corrine Brown ... and Mario Diaz-Balart?
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 16, 2011 - 9:21am
Businessman Mike Yost was the Republican nominee to take on Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown -- one of the most prominent Democrats in Florida --in 2010, and he hopes to do so again in 2012.By joining Republicans in continuing to oppose the constitutional amendments backed by FairDistricts Florida and approved by voters at the ballot last year, Yost is trying to make political hay in showing his support of those measures.
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Romney in Front as Feisty Bachmann Gains on Pawlenty
June 15, 2011 - 6:00pm
Barack Obama did not watch the Republican presidential candidates' debate in Manchester, N.H., on Monday night, we are told. He was busy addressing a campaign fundraising event in Miami.
Jerry Holbert Cartoon
June 15, 2011 - 6:00pm
House Delivers Everglades Somber News
Submitted by Nancy Smith on June 15, 2011 - 4:29pm
Those looking for federal help with Everglades restoration suffered something of a blow Wednesday when the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would cut $32.7 million from the president's $162.7 million fiscal 2012 spending request.
That would leave just $130 million in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' budget and it would mean nearly a $19 million reduction from the current appropriation.
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Congressional Committee Passes Balanced Budget Amendment
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 15, 2011 - 3:19pm
On Wednesday, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed the balanced budget amendment which would require a supermajority vote in Congress to raise taxes and a three-fifths vote to raise the debt ceiling. It would also ensure that federal spending could not exceed 18 percent of the GDP.
Freshman Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, one of the co-sponsors of the amendment, weighed in on Wednesday afternoon.
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PPP Poll: Republicans Chip Away at Obama's Lead
June 14, 2011 - 6:00pm
With Pakistan Rounding Up Osama Bin Laden Informants, Mike McCalister Calls to End U.S. Aid
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 15, 2011 - 1:48pm
With reports coming out that Pakistan has rounded up informants who helped American forces find and kill terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, Mike McCalister, a businessman and retired Army officer who is now running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2012, weighed in on Wednesday.
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