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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is like the Santa Claus of Florida politics, as his continued actions and signing of bills are making politicians from both sides of the political aisle very happy, regardless of whether they were naughty or nice.
With the new progressive wing of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Congress stealing all the news headlines sign being sworn into office, some of the more liberal members of the Democratic House Caucus are feeling pressure to join the new movement. Florida Congresswoman Lois Frankel (D), who is part of the Speaker Pelosi majority […]
Democrats have already passed gun legislation that is considered anti-gun because of the restrictions the bills call for, and are now poised to pass an ammunitions bill introduced by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D)
Honor Flight South Florida, Inc., has organized and successfully executed another flight to honor those men and women who served in WWII, the Korea War, and Vietnam War.
Florida Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D), like most congressional Democrats, is upset over how the Trump administration is executing the nation’s immigration policy, and has called for the resignation of Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar.
Freshman U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R) is benefitting from the all the dysfunction in Washington, as several of his key legislative initiatives have begun to gain traction.
Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) just got a bipartisan boost of support for his BLAST Act, a bill he introduced back in March with Sen. Mike Braun that would permanently ban former members of Congress from “cashing in and becoming lobbyists.”
Florida U.S. Rep. Al Lawson (D) is the latest member of Congress to lend his support for Biden, saying that Uncle Joe” had a “long history of doing what’s right and not what’s easy to advance the causes of America’s working families,” he was “pleased to endorse Vice President Joe Biden.”
Mueller Addressed reporters and America during a press conference at the Department of Justice, where he reiterated that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but did say that he did not have sufficient evidence to file charges against President Trump or anyone else.
Mueller, who made his remarks at the Department of Justice, stated that he is resigning as special counsel, and that the Justice Department is “formally closing the special counsel’s office,” adding that he will not testify before congress.
After Senate Democrats voted against disaster relief funding that would have alleviated stress and pressure to those affected by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and Hurricane Michael in Florida, the funding has finally been signed off on. READ MORE
“We stand with our Chair in protecting the rule of law against the rise of tyranny,” tweeted Rep. Hakeem Jeffries “@HouseDemocrats will expose the cover-up. No. Matter. What. It. Takes.”
During the 2018 mid-term elections, where Democrats gained controlled of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic Congresswoman Lois Frankel was easily re-elected when Republicans failed to qualify a candidate to challenge her in the general election. With President Donald Trump running for a second term in 2020, Republicans are galvanized to come out and repeat […]
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.
“Special Counsel Mueller’s report paints a disturbing picture of a president who has been weaving a web of deceit, lies and improper behavior and acting as if the law doesn’t apply to him. But if you hadn’t read the report and listened only to Mr. Barr, you wouldn’t have known any of that because Mr. Barr has been so misleading.
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%)
“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.”
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.
