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When members of congress get embroiled in a scandal, its usually after they are sworn into office, but not for Florida Congressman Ross Spano (R), who inadvertently stepped into one days before taking the oath of office.
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, the longest-serving member of Florida’s congressional delegation, announced Monday he is being treated for pancreatic cancer at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington.
After a lot of internal party turmoil and questioning of leadership, the House Democratic Caucus has voted in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.
The 116th Congress will usher in a couple of new milestones, one of those is swearing in the first Equadorian-American and first South American-born migrant to its ranks.
Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R) is bidding farewell to his constituents after losing re-election to the U.S. Congress in 2018.
The NICA Act of 2018, which imposes strict sanctions on the tyrannical Ortega regime in Nicaragua, has brought Republicans and Democrats together, and President Trump has signed it into law.
After failing dozens of times to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in federal judge in Texas has ruled that the controversial healthcare law unconstitutional.
With President Trump has saying that he was” proud to shut down the government for border security” and would take that “mantle,” congressional Democrats see his statement as a golden opportunity to embarrass him, and are digging in for fight over border security.
With President Trump's personal Attorney Michael Cohen being sentence to prison for tax evasion and lying to congress, Democrats are salivating over the possibility that Cohen's follies will lead to criminal charges filed against the president.
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.
Even after numerous attempts by House Republicans to to “repeal and replace” the controversial and now seemingly ‘unaffordable’ healthcare law, Obamacare is still up and running.
With the 2018 mid-term elections having brought in 35 new women legislators to the U.S. Congress - adding to the existing 70 or so women- the nation’s governing body has become the most diverse by gender and race in history. Of the 102 female members of congress, 89 are Democrats, while just 13 are Republican. […]
The Parkland school shooting sparked a huge nationwide movement to ban assault weapons and started what Democrats said was a “Blue Wave” that would take back the U.S. Congress.
After clearing out potential challengers to her second stint at Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader had a little fun this past week when she made appeared on the TV game show "Jeopardy." One of the topics in the game was Govt. Abbreviation. When the last entry in this topic was picked, Pelosi popped […]
Every election cycle there are usually a few firsts that are accomplished when newly-elected members of the U.S. Congress are sworn in.
During a Democratic Party freshman orientation even in the Capitol, Rep. Charlie Crist told the Floridian that as far as the recount was concerned, he just wanted “the process to work well” and “work effectively.”
