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Marco Rubio (R) has introduced a bill that would restore Holocaust survivors' rights.
House Republicans continue seeking means to cut wasteful government spending. Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) recently told The Floridian he would like to cut funding to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other agencies that continue to spend taxpayer dollars on non-essential items. This decision comes on the heels of the controversial NASA-sponsored air […]
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says there's no doubt that the U.S. will win the space race against China.
"We have made great progress toward bringing real operational change to the way Lake Okeechobee is managed.”
As 2018 draws to a close and he prepares for retirement, Senator Bill Nelson is looking back at his long career in office and lamenting what he believes is a loss in bipartisanship in American politics. At 76 years old, Nelson has not only served as a Florida Senator, but he has also served in […]
President Donald Trump continues to sign bills into law during the holiday season, and the most recent one is the Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act, which is a proposal from Florida representative Gus Bilirakis. It was passed by the House last week, and the Senate also passed its own version of the bill, which was […]
This month, the Senate unanimously approved a bill that classifies lynchings as a federal hate crime, and the bill was sponsored by the Senate’s three African American members: Republican Tim Scott and Democrats Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. The bill was introduced by the three senators, and both Harris and Booker are rumored to be […]
As Florida Senator Marco Rubio prepares to welcome Governor Rick Scott to the U.S. Senate, the soon-to-be senior senator from the sunshine state first had to bid farewell to Bill Nelson, who lost his bid for re-election to Scott in the 2018 mid-term elections. Rubio was always contended that while he and Nelson differed on […]
The U.S. Senate has just passed the 2018 Farm Bill by a vote count of 87-13, but the bill’s passage did not come with the support of Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who stated that he couldn’t bring himself to vote for a bill that included “worst elements” of both the Senate and House versions.
After narrowly losing his re-election bid to Florida Governor Rick Scott in the 2018 mid-term elections, and with less than a month left in his political career, Sen. Bill Nelson (R) appears to be going out with a bit of a fight.
Bill Nelson’s Senate loss was an upset that Democrats did not expect to get hit with, and it seems that NASA and the Kennedy Space Center are also feeling the effects of the loss as they turn their sights to find a new lawmaker that embrace the same level of support that Nelson did. James […]
Just last week, Senator-elect Rick Scott was in Washington, D.C. pressing the flesh and attending numerous freshman orientation events with Jackie Schutz Zeckman, his campaign manager and close confidant.
After the Florida Supervisor of Elections (not the embattled and so-called incompetent Broward Supervisor of Elections) announced that Republican Rick Scott finished 10,000 votes ahead of three-term Sen. Bill Nelson in the recently completed machine recount, Nelson conceded.
Amid his chances of winning reelection dwindling, Senator Bill Nelson’s “Coast Guard Authorization Act” was passed 94 to 6, and it passed with Senator Marco Rubio’s support. Senator Nelson cowrote the legislation. The bill ensures that $10.6 billion will be used for the Coast Guard, which is a 16% increase in budget. In addition, the […]
Senator Bill Nelson was defeated on election night by his Republican opponent Governor Rick Scott. As the controversial Florida recounts continue, Senator Nelson is still trailing the Governor, but Senator Chuck Schumer still believes that Senator Nelson will pull off a victory. However, in 2006, Senator Schumer was calling for different actions to take place. […]
While election officials scramble to complete the final vote recount in Florida’s 2018 mid-term elections, Governor-elect Ron DeSantis appears to be shrugging off the very slim chance that he could eventually lose his race in a recount.
Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes has not said much since the Broward County Commission Canvassing Board convened to oversee the recount efforts in this year's mid-term elections.
Senator Nelson and Governor Rick Scott have exchanged blows since the culmination of Tuesday’s midterm elections that saw Governor Scott winning Senator Nelson’s seat. As their race undergoes a recount, Senator Nelson’s attorney compared Governor Scott’s use of a state law-enforcement agency to investigate the actions of elections officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties to […]