Senate President Joe Negron, a Stuart Republican unanimously elected to lead the Senate on Tuesday, regaled colleagues with an account of putting Ronald Reagan stickers outside a home owned by the Bush family on Jupiter Island.
Members, I am deeply moved and humbled by your faith, confidence and trust. I will work every day to bring honor to this House and to those I represent.
Much of the focus of U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., in recent weeks has been on Haiti as it recovers from Hurricane Matthew and deals with the first round of its presidential election.
Two years ago, I held a series of roundtable meetings in Lutz, Florida with physicians, advocates, patients, and families from our area to hear about the challenges of finding cures for the thousands of deadly and chronic diseases impacting millions of Americans. Diseases like cancer, ALS, Alzheimer’s, and the 7,000 rare conditions. These discussions were eye-opening to me. I got a true sense of how difficult it is to get new medicines to market, and how painful it can be for families desperate for treatment.
Subtract one name from the ongoing lawsuit against Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program -- the Florida PTA is officially dropping out of the suit.
Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran is ushering in a new era in the Florida Legislature beginning Tuesday.
The Florida House of Representatives today adopted "sweeping and monumental" ethics reform immediately following the election of Richard Corcoran as new speaker of the House.
Melania Trump's decision to wait to live in the White House until June, when 10-year-old Barron finishes the school year in New York, is unprecedented for a first lady. But it could be more than that, according to a family friend: Her absence could indirectly affect new President Donald Trump's governance. At least over the short haul.
As he was formally nominated Monday by his Republican colleagues to be the next speaker of the Florida House, Rep. Richard Corcoran gave few new indications of where he will take the chamber over the next two years.
