State lawmakers will roll up their sleeves and get to work in Tallahassee beginning Tuesday -- and up on their first week’s agenda? Three gun bills which have gathered the support of statewide gun groups and the opposition of anti-gun forces in the Sunshine State.
Almost half of the Florida congressional delegation is backing U.S. Rep. Darren Soto’s, D-Fla., proposal to help the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other government agencies at the state and local levels.
Starting his third month in Congress, freshman U.S. Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., has already established a good relationship with the chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee as the Florida Republican is starting to make his mark on Capitol Hill.
If the 2018 U.S. Senate election were held today, incumbent Bill Nelson would win a hypothetical matchup against Gov. Rick Scott, a new poll shows.
Floridians should feel relieved Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature insisted on open and competitive bidding for a new Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS).
Among the many unintended legacies of Barack Obama, one has gone largely unnoticed: the emergence of a novel form of resistance to executive overreach, a check-and-balance improvised in reaction to his various presidential power grabs.
State lawmakers are loading up another series of gun bills to shoot through the Florida Legislature for the 2017 legislative session, setting the showdown for another round of intense debate over gun control in the Sunshine State.
Florida lawmakers will have a lot on their plates during this year’s legislative session, but education issues will be some of the hottest topics hitting the chambers’ floor over the next 60 days.
The President issued an executive order last week calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to review and revise the indefensible U.S. Army Corps if Engineers and EPA rule redefining “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) subject to federal control under the Clean Water Act. I can think of a no more qualified candidate for regulatory rollback than this infamous rule.
