U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks out against President Barack Obama's response to two U.S. servicemen being killed during a terror attack in Germany. Courtesy of West Palm Beach's BizPacReview.com.
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Talking to the media on Monday, House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, unveiled a number of reforms that will be pushed out of the Judiciary Committee tackling immigration and the courts.
Cannon said the proposal would mandate every private company in Florida with more than 100 employees to use E-Verify to check the immigration status of every potential employee starting in 2013.
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Confirming suspicions that he will try to derail, or at least dilute, immigration legislation this session, House Speaker Dean Cannon doused his chamber's E-Verify bill on Monday.
The Winter Park Republican said the measure will require the public sector to use the federal database to screen new hires, and then phase in usage for private-sector employers.
"Employers with 100 or more employees come on line July 1, 2012 -- all others on July 1, 2013," said Cannon spokeswoman Katie Betta.
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With President Barack Obama in Florida on Friday night to help fund-raise for Democrats, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) looked to connect U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson -- who is up for re-election in 2012 -- to the president.
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More than 40 demonstrations and counterdemonstrations are planned Tuesday across Florida, as opponents and supporters of Gov. Rick Scott's proposed tax and budget cuts rally on the opening day of the 2011 Legislature.
Neither side is predicting how many people will turn out, but both camps are jousting for position -- and that could lead to confrontations at some venues.
Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio took aim at the Obama administrations decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
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While they are in town Tuesday to rally in support of Gov. Rick Scott's budget and tax cuts, tea partiers are also invited to attend the first meeting of a legislative Tea Party Caucus.
Reps. Mike Weinstein, R-Jacksonville, and and Larry Metz, R-Eustis, will host the inaugural meeting of the caucus -- believed to be the first of its kind in the nation -- at the Capitol complex Tuesday afternoon.
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, Hero
No wonder Gov. Rick Scott spends so much time in Miami. Why wouldn't he want the state to spend $77 million to dredge a deeper Port of Miami? For a governor who promised 700,000 jobs in seven years, Miami is Paradise Found. It's a spark waiting for tinder.
Especially since last week when U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio upped Miami's stakes.
Remember when the recession was declared officially "over" a few months ago? Does anyone other than a few technocrats and the most fanatical Obamaphile really believe that?
To straighten the political and economic spin, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis produced an interactive graph that tracks the economic rebound from every recession dating back to 1948.
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