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By Asha Padmanabhan, MD and Leopoldo Rodriguez, MD Patients in Florida and across the U.S. have enough complications and costs to worry about when accessing health care. Unexpected medical bills, however, add an unnecessary burden. Some of these surprise bills show up in the mail weeks, months, or even years after patients receive care that […]
President Donald Trump is on the verge of scoring a major victory for his administration, but congressional Republicans claim that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is stalling a key vote in the House of Representatives that would make that victory a reality.
As more and more Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives lend their names in support of President Donald Trump’s USMCA trade deal, the president has openly called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to put the measure up for a floor vote in the House.
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was given information about a support group by a social worker. Before I had a chance to go, I found out that I was actually metastatic, meaning the cancer had left my breast and spread to my bones, which is the definition of Stage IV. The next […]
Ambassador Gordon Sondland has testified in the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that there was a quid pro quo between the Trump administration and Ukraine.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) played hardball this week, asking a judge to levy prison time for the person who threw a drink on him at one of his events. He got what he wanted, as U.S. Magistrate Judge Hope Cannon sentence Amanda Kondrat’yev, a former Democratic congressional candidate, to 15 days in prison for throwing the drink on him.
The House Intelligence Committee continued interviewing witnesses in hopes that one of them would offer up a “gotcha” moment for their impeachment inquiry investigation into President Donald Trump.
Florida’s first “Green Governor” Ron DeSantis has unveiled his FY 2020-2021 “Bolder, Brighter, Better Future” for the state of Florida.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) is still polling at the very top of most polls, even as Mayor Peter Buttigieg is showing increased support in states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and Vice President Joe Biden holds firm as the overall frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary contest.
Controversial Muslim-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) has received widespread and profound denunciation over her apparent anti-Israel position and the anti-Semitic rhetoric she has used to express her disdain for the strongest ally the U.S. has in the Middle East.
After receiving significant pushback for making anti-Semitic comments prior to entering the U.S. Congres, and for her "all about the Benjamins" comment she made after arriving in Washington, D.C., Muslim-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) tweets are once again at the center of the anti-Semitism argument.
One of the key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry investigation by House Democrats, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, appears to have lied under oath during her interview.
The attorney for the whistleblower at the center of the House impeachment inquiry, Mark Zaid, got a little defensive today when former Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly called his 2017 anti-Trump tweets "clearly partisan" and "harshly anti-Trump & reveal an unambiguous desire to oust the prez."
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) does not shy away from a political brawl, nor does he care to watch what he says about his Democratic colleagues in the house. Rep. Gaetz is persona non grata with many House Democrats that are wading through the impeachment weeds.
Freshman Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D) is considered by many to be “ bien arrecha” (Spanish slang for not mincing her words, acting tough) with her approach of calling out President Trump and his administration for what he believes are improprieties
Term-limited state Rep. Dane Eagle (R) becomes the first official candidate to replace U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney (R) in what will be a hotly contested GOP primary race.
Moderate or “Blue Dog Democrat” Rep. Charlie Crist has a big fat bullseye on his back, as the prominent and likable former governor of Florida is being targeted by a slew of Republican congressional candidates and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) in the 2020 presidential election cycle.
Democrats, who ran and won on healthcare in the 2018 midterm elections because Republicans failed to effectively counter-message, are once again poised to run on that very issue in the 2020 presidential election cycle.
