With a new Republican challenger having entered the race, U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., has introduced a proposed balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as she tried to claim the political center.
Some American history museums belabor visitors with this message: You shall know the truth and it shall make you feel ashamed of, but oh-so-superior to, your wretched ancestors. The new Museum of the American Revolution is better than that. Located near Independence Hall, it celebrates the luminous ideas affirmed there 241 Julys ago, but it does not flinch from this fact: The war that began at Lexington and Concord 14 months before the Declaration of Independence was America's first civil war. And it had all the messiness and nastiness that always accompany protracted fratricide.
Palm Coast Republican Paul Renner will likely take over as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives in 2022. On Friday, Renner beat out three other state reps for the position to secure the title of freshman class leader and eventually, possible Speaker of the Florida House.
Aside from the occasional hurricane, there are few elements of drama in most Tallahassee summers. The Legislature is out of town. Many of the statewide elected officers spend a lot of time elsewhere. The population drops precipitously as university students take their break.
Does either Republican candidate running for Florida's 116th House District actually live in the district? The battle for the Republican candidacy in HD116 seems to only grow hotter by the day, with new allegations arising that one of the candidates, Daniel Perez, doesn’t actually live in the district he’s running in -- but Perez and his campaign team are wasting no time fighting back.
U.S. Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., took the lead in rounding up more than 100 members of Congress to urge the Trump administration to stand against seismic testing in the Atlantic, insisting it’s the first step towards offshore drilling.
Senate President Joe Negron is hardly the first legislator to practice law for a firm with business before the Florida Legislature.
The two representatives from South Florida who lead a U.S. House subcommittee, guided through a host of bills this week focused on Middle Eastern affairs.
