The dean of congressional Republicans, U.S. Rep. Bill Young, announced this week that he was going to be closing one of his district offices.
With an eye toward saving taxpayer funds, I have decided to close my St. Petersburg office effective Dec. 17, 2010, noted Young. My St. Petersburg staff will relocate and combine with my Seminole district office.
It is my intent to establish an outreach location whereas my staff will continue to meet with and assist those constituents who reside in southern Pinellas County, added Young.
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U.S. Rep. Connie Mack penned an op-ed in Thursdays edition of Roll Call that offers what could be a peak at his playbook if he decides to enter the Republican field of hopefuls looking to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012.
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Gov. Charlie Crist set the dates Wednesday for two special elections to be held to fill spots in the Legislature left by resignations.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis weighed in on Thursday morning on the $1.1 trillion 2011 spending bill emerging in the Senate.
This pork-laden bill is stuffed with more earmarks and big-government spending at a time when we can least afford it, said Bilirakis. President Obama himself said the country cant afford these earmarks and the American people voted in November to end this spending binge, so now its time for the president to step up and veto this bill if it passes Congress.
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After teaming up with Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum to write to Ken Feinberg, state CFO Alex Sink, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate who lost to Rick Scott, sent a letter to President Barack Obama on the claims process for those Floridians impacted by the oil spill in the Gulf.
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As U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson prepared to hear arguments in the Obamacare case Thursday morning, Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett had this to say:
In today's hearing, Judge Roger Vinson will consider a bedrock principle of our Constitution:Do the enumerated powers of Congress have any judicially enforceable limit?
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The rate of foreclosure filings in Florida fell 42 percent in November from the previous month, and 38 percent from November 2009, according to a report released Thursday by Realty Trac, a California-based company that tracks foreclosed properties. Nationwide, foreclosures were down 21 percent in November from the previous month. One out of every 267 housing units received a foreclosure filing in Florida in November, and nationwide that number was one in every 492 housing units.
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Tea party activists in Florida are petitioning to shut down the federal government until Congress removes the 6,600 earmarks from the $1.1 trillion omnibus budget bill.
Tea partiers urge like-minded Floridians to sign this petition calling on lawmakers to reject the earmark-laden package and pass a continuing budget resolution that strips out the pork.
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With the Senate moving forward to vote on the START treaty, U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., voted in the minority to defer it, arguing that such a complex matter needed longer debate and study.
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and other federal officials announced Wednesday that the government is suing BP and eight other defendants, seeking to recover damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill earlier this year.
