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Days after calling for the House to begin the impeachment process against President Donald Trump, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D), a candidate for the 2020 Presidential Election who has largely been overshadowed by former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, now seems to be surging in the public eye with new calls for universal free public college and a...
"Bernie Sanders wouldn’t be that candidate.”
In addition, Rubio said that the report “accurately and comprehensively laid out the details” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s effort to subvert the American electoral system by trying to influence the 2016 election.
"Both agencies denied that Russia had successfully infiltrated Florida’s election.”
The report didn’t find enough to warrant indictments, but did cast Trump in a bad light, leaving the door open for Democrats to question (10) reported instances that Trump may have obstructed justice, like his termination of Comey.
The State Department has announced that effective May 2, under Title III of the LIBERTAD ACT, Americans will be able to sue individuals that have been “trafficking property” that the Cuban regime has confiscated or stolen over the past 5 decades.
Florida’s two Republican Senators, Rick Scott (90%) and Marco Rubio (91.4%), are in the top ten of those members that back the Trump agenda, as are Texas Senators Ted Cruz (92.6%) and John Cornyn (95.7%)
Rep. Charlie Crist, the longtime Republican-turned-Independent-turned- Democratic congressman from St. Petersburg, has been tapped to serve as vice chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in the south.
 “When we won this election, it wasn’t in districts like mine or Alexandria’s,” Pelosi said. “[S]he’s a wonderful member of Congress as I think all of our colleagues will attest. But those are districts that are solidly Democratic.”
“The Chinese are there. The Russians are there. They are not our friends,” said Scott. “Its (China) government that has built a military to compete with us.
The Treasury department is targeting companies that transport Venezuelan oil to Cuba, which is accused of propping up Dictator Maduro, and have helped fund the human rights violations that his government have committed.
“We have received a letter from Senator John McCain requesting financial contribution to his Presidential campaign.”
When asked if he believed Trump had the right to break the law, Scott simply said that he felt the president is “very frustrated” because the wasn’t being secured because “Democrats are stopping” the border patrol from doing their job of securing the U.S. southern border.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) is in disbelief that her Democratic counterparts in the senate are refusing to pass legislation to help Americans rebuild in Florida
"Iran is not only a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but that the IRGC actively participates in, finances, and promotes terrorism as a tool statecraft.”
Congressional Democrats, who were expected to hear that  Trump did collude with Putin, took issue with Barr’s short assessment of the Mueller findings, and have been pressing for the entire report to be furnished.
Regardless of their political affiliation, members of the U.S. Congress always seem to come together on legislation that protects animals, regardless of whether these pets are domesticated or not.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who last month introduced and passed an amendment in the Senate budget that protected pre-existing conditions, has co-sponsored the Protect Act with Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) to help qualm concerns over pre-existing condition coverage, and allowing young adults to stay on their parent’s healthcare plan until they reach 26 years of age.
