WASHINGTON — Anyone looking to send a holiday card to U.S. veterans recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center can postmark the wishes to U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, who said this week that he would “personally deliver” the cards this month.
Here’s the address:
Congressman Bill Posey
2725 Judge Fran Jamieson [...]
Miami political consultant Jeff Garcia's biggest-name clients in Florida in recent years have been losers: Elaine Bloom for Congress, Betty Castor for U.S. Senate, Raul Martinez for Congress.
But the Democratic strategist picked a winner this time, helping to elect the first openly gay or' [...]
Bill McCollum (who in Congress was mighty friendly with the banking and credit card industry) for the first time is attacking Alex Sink's background as a banker. It's a line of attack that Florida Republicans had started and then stopped earlier this year. A Statement from McCollum [...]
By Mark K. Matthews, Orlando Sentinel
WASHINGTON — Few members of Congress are as relentless at self-promotion as U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson.
Since January, the Orlando Democrat has flooded inboxes and mailboxes in his four-county Central Florida district with glowing accounts of his first year in Congress, even quoting the mayor of [...]
A few follow-up notes on the congressional front…
Mica ignores birther bill. Sunday’s column mentioned that Bill Posey is still championing the birth-certificate bill that has made him the hero of (and now officially endorsed by) the birther crowd. But I thought you might also like a take on this legislation [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon of Tennessee announced today that he would not seek re-election to Congress, a decision that ensures new leadership atop the U.S. House and Science Technology committee after the 2010 election.
The departure of the veteran lawmaker is the latest in a string of Democratic retirements [...]
Reports of Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer's demise proved greatly exaggerated Thursday.
Under fire by some in his party for his performance, Greer got a vote of confidence Thursday from the GOP's executive board, composed of party leaders representing each of Florida's congressional districts.
At a meeting at the Doubletree Hotel in [...]
That would be Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to this week's National Journal poll of Congressional and political insiders -- who are surveyed on "their favorite members of Congress, the member they'd like most to shut up, the brightest thinkers and strategists in their parties and much more."
Congressional insiders gave [...]
Sen. George LeMieux said that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is “very pleased with where we are” in Florida, now that state lawmakers have approved a commuter rail bill in special session.
LeMieux was one of several members of Florida’s congressional delegation who spoke last night with LaHood about… [...]
House and Senate negotiators have apparently reached a deal to keep anti-Castro broadcasters Radio and TV Marti alive. Congressional critics in the Senate had proposed slicing the stations' $34 million budget nearly in half -- but a compromise has been reached, setting the 2010 budget at $30 million.
Florida Sen. George LeMieux, who had threatened' [...]
Bill Nelson's office say commuter rail in Florida has gotten a second big boost -- congressional budget negotiators late last night agreed to spend $40 million to help jumpstart a rail system that will serve
commuters in Central Florida.
There's also $1.7 million for planning for light rail in Tampa and $4 million for expansion of' [...]
Reuters: "Much of a $6 billion annual tax break for U.S. corporate research is a windfall for companies that would do the research even without such a subsidy, the investigative arm of Congress said on Tuesday.
Use of the tax credit is dominated by large corporations, and half of the 2005" [...]
Respected Capitol Hill reporter Jonathan Allen will head up Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's political action committee, the Florida congresswoman announced today. Allen, formerly of CQ and briefly POLITICO, will be executive director of the Democrats Win Seats -- DWS -- PAC.
The PAC has contributed nearly $750,000 to Democratic incumbents and challengers [...]
From Twitter and tonight's White House holiday party for members of Congress comes this report from Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen:
"The White House always looks lovely @ Christmas: attended Congressional party 2nite. Hate to be catty but the First Lady looked stunning."
Claws have to be a lot sharper for catty....
[...]Ileana Ros-Lehtinen says the trip to Israel that drew scrutiny from the New York Times today was cleared ahead of time by the House ethics committee. Here's the documents from the trip.
The Times wrote this morning that "despite changes intended to curb Congressional junkets, some lawmakers and even their'" [...]
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is cited in a New York Times report today about questionable, corporate-sponsored trips by members of Congress and now, CNN has amplified the story across cableland.
In an interview on CNN, Times reporter Eric Lichtblau said Ros-Lehtinen's trip to Jerusalem on its face appeared to violate [...]
Add a new element to the political intrigue in the Senate over rail.
Senate Democratic Leader Al Lawson, D-Tallahassee, confirms he's being pressured to drop his longshot Congressional bid and instead run for chief financial officer -- the only statewide race in which Democrats have thus far failed to field a candidate.
The [...]
Add a new element to the political intrigue in the Senate over rail.
Senate Democratic Leader Al Lawson, D-Tallahassee, confirms he's being pressured to drop his longshot Congressional bid and instead run for chief financial officer -- the only statewide race in which Democrats have thus far failed to field a candidate.
The [...]
The New York Times writes that "Despite changes intended to curb Congressional junkets, some lawmakers and even their families continue to take trips hosted by private groups and companies that revel in their access to Washington power brokers."
Those featured include Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, who, on a "privately sponsored trip," [...]
From this hyper-Libertarian/Free Market perspective all of the following are clear indications of Socialist America:
Public airwaves
Public parks
Public education
Public domain
Streets and highways
bridges
police
teachers
civil servants
the military
the courts
citizenship
Congress
libraries
Universities
NASA
scientific research supported by government grants
fairy tales
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