National Politics

The notion of making Puerto Rico the 51st state of the union is very popular among both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, but will ever come to pass, even as President Donald Trump opposes the idea?

Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) has taken to twitter to blast Senator Dick Durbin (D), arguing that the Democrats lied about the Venezuela TPS bill.

A day after announcing that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. special operations raid in Northern Syria, President Donald Trump has announced that al-Baghdadi's second in command was also "terminated by American troops" over the weekend.

As House and Senate Democrats continue to be in disbelief over President Donald Trump refusing to inform them that he had ordered a U.S military raid in Syria that resulted in the death of the most sought after Islamic terrorist, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, congressional Republicans are praising the efforts of both the president and the military personnel that...

“We can’t afford to fall short."

As President Trump’s son Donald Trump, Jr. and his reelection campaign continue publicly question vice president Joe Biden’s mental capacity and ability to lead, Sen. Elizabeth Warren continues to gradually climb in all of the 2020 Democratic presidential public opinion polls.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) is not repeating her assertion that President Donald Trump gave “permission” to “white supremacists and hateful violent bigots to come out from the shadows and act on their hatred,” but she is saying that the president is still saying that the president’s “bigotry continues to stew hate in America.

As Republican and Democratic members of Congress continue to tussle over the impeachment inquiry in Washington, D.C., and as Turkey has grabbed center stage over their invasion into Northern Syria, it seems as if legislators have taken their eye off the ball in regards to Venezuela.

It’s campaign season and both Republicans and Democrats are closely watching (and attacking) what each is doing and saying. Florida, as is the case every four years,  is ground zero in the 2020 presidential election cycle with several congressional races taking centerstage when voters go to the polls. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D) is one of […]

Yesterday, the House unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act. This bill was introduced by Florida Representatives Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) the law would make it a federal crime for "any person to intentionally engage" in animal cruelty, including burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling or otherwise injuring "non-mammals, birds, reptiles […]

Florida's congressional Democrats banded together this week to call on Congress to fully fund efforts to defend democracy in Venezuela.

In a massive show of frustration of House Democrats secretly moving forward with a not-so-transparent impeachment inquiry into President Trump, House Republicans stormed the Capitol interview room, or Schiff, demanding to be allowed to sit in on today's questioning of another Trump administration witnesses.

Law Professor Tim Canova first challenged Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) in a heated and historic 2016 Democratic congressional primary election, and while Canova has announced at a third run against the veteran lawmaker from “Westonzuela”  or Weston, Florida and new challenger to Wasserman Schultz’s seat has emerged in the 2020 presidential election cycle.

President Donald Trump’s use of the term “lynching” has caused a firestorm of condemnation from Democrats and has also managed to take a couple of those politicians down to the mat for their hypocrisy in condemning the president’s use of the word.

President Trump's use of the term "lynching"  to describe the current impeachment inquiry effort against him has once again, landed the 45th president of the United States in a bit of hot water.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) becomes the first 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to suggest if Israel continues to increase settlements, then “everything (including sanctions and reduction of aid) is on the table.

One of President Trump's loyal members of the House of Representatives, Florida Rep. Ted Yoho (R), is rumored to be stepping down sometime next year, telling The Floridian as far back as 2015 that he would not seek reelection in 2020.

With the U.S. Congress being as divided as it is, some House members are looking past partisanship and are working together to file legislation that benefits all Americans, regardless of political and ideological affiliation.