Guest AuthorNovember 11, 2020
5min507
To our veterans — thank you for your service to our great nation.
Tag: Armed Services Committee
Guest AuthorNovember 11, 2020
Jacob OglesSeptember 24, 2018
3min214
A new ad from Republican Rick Scott’s U.S. Senate campaign nicks incumbent Bill Nelson for working a three-day work week and missing national security meetings. “It’s time to retire ‘No Show’ Nelson and give him the rest of the week off,” a narrator says at the ads closing. Specifically, the ad takes Nelson to task […]
Scott PowersOctober 19, 2017
2min325
Florida’s U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is asking the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee to investigate the ambush of American soldiers in Niger, wondering if they were adequately supported. Nelson, a Democrat, sent a letter Thursday to Committee Chair John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Ranking Member Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Republican, stating that too […]
Scott PowersApril 26, 2017
4min284
Winter Park Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy is introducing two bills aimed at addressing international security concerns with North Korea and the Asian-Pacific theater. Her bills, which she discussed Wednesday in a committee hearing and again on the floor of the House of Representatives, would require the U.S. intelligence and diplomatic agencies to set up […]
Scott PowersJanuary 10, 2017
3min314
Central Florida’s three freshmen in Congress all got top-choice A-list committee assignments Tuesday, with Val Demings of Orlando serving on the Homeland Security Committee, Darren Soto of Orlando on the Agriculture Committee, and Stephanie Murphy of Winter Park on the Armed Services Committee. Congressional leaders announced their choices for freshmen and others to fill spots […]
Ryan RayJune 3, 2016
3min223
U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham is reaching across the aisle in an effort to bring the F-35 fighter jet to Florida. The freshman Democrat from Tallahassee co-wrote letters with U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen addressed to top Air Force brass asking them to consider expanding USAF’s presence across Florida. “We must ensure that the Jacksonville [Air National Guard] base […]
Guest AuthorJune 1, 20145min193
Take your blinders off: This is why the Koch Brothers and radical-right groups will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the 2014 midterm elections, why Gov. Rick Scott wants to raise $100 million to get re-elected — and how you can defeat them. If the Tea Party-GOP gains control of the U.S. Senate, Sen. […]