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Florida Senator Marco Rubio is calling out European nations France and Germany over failure to “reimpose sanctions” against Iran for violating the “flawed nuke deal” that was championed by former U.S. President Barack Obama.
The Trump administration has levied crippling economic sanctions, including crude oil restrictions, against the Maduro regime, including specific sanctions against the dictator himself and his family.
Members of Florida’s congressional delegation, including Sens. Marco Rubio (R) and Rick Scott (R), as well as Reps. Matt Gaetz (R), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), Donna Shalala (D), Ted Deutch (D), and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D), have been pressing the Trump administration to set aside more federal aid to help in the Hurricanes Irma and Michael clean-up effort.
The Trump administration’s decision to ‘evict’ 6 members of Congress from VA hospitals in Florida left those representatives shaking their heads and wondering how the president close down these offices.
All the candidates made their best effort to be the most anti-Trump candidate, calling the president a racist whenever they could. But while all of the candidates believe Trump is a racist, Mayor Pete Buttigieg went as far as to call millions of Americans who support Trump, racists.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) accused former ICE Director Tom Homan as being “bigoted” and that his testimony during a hearing of The House Oversight Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee over why the Trump administration decided to stop immigrants from seeking deferment for the immigration cases, should “not be accepted as accurate testimony.”
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Protecting and Securing Florida’s Coastline Act of 2019, a measure sponsored by Rep. Francis Rooney (R) that would make the 2006 moratorium on offshore oil drilling permanent along the coast of Florida.
“I can hear you!” “I can hear you!. The rest of the world hears you!” And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”
House Democrats are back in session and following through with their promise to push “gun violence” legislation the moment they returned from the August recess.
CNN is reporting that in 2017, the CIA extracted a spy from Russia that had access to Putin that was capable of taking pictures of documents on his desk
For decades, prison life has been glorified in Hollywood movies and reality TV as a continuation of an inmate’s criminal career, depicting how crimes are committed within the friendly confines of state and federal penitentiaries.
Healthcare reform will once again be one of the central issues that will be addressed during the 2020 presidential election cycle. U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D), who represents Florida’s 26th congressional district in Miami, appeared on CBS’ “Facing South Florida” with Jim DeFede, where the freshman congresswoman and member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus address the healthcare problems Americans continue...
If you are American, David Hogg’s recent remarks about how America was founded on “white supremacy” may upset you.
Opa-Locka- U.S. Senators Rick Scott (R) and Marco Rubio (R) held a press conference at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station shortly after conducting surveying the hurricane-battered northern Bahamian islands on Friday.
After touring the northern Bahamas with Senator Marco Rubio (R) and Gov. Ron DeSantis, days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R) told reporters on Friday that the U.S. needed to “stop funding that are our enemies” and allocate those dollars to hurricane relief for our “good friends.”
Democrats and Republicans don’t have much in common these days, but both groups can agree that pedophilia has no place in our society, and individuals who commit heinous crimes against children should feel the full wrath of the criminal justice system.
The world sugar community is reeling after India decided to subsidize its sugar farmers with a cool $1million, dumping cheap product into the market and further depressing global sugar prices, not to mention hurting farmers in producing countries like Brazil, Guatemala, and Australia.
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, a veteran mechanic with American Airlines, has been arrested on a federal sabotage charge that accuses him of tampering and disabling the navigation system of a flight from Miami to Nassau, Bahamas.
