Ryan NicolDecember 6, 2022
3min0
Book is entering her first full legislative term as caucus leader.
Tag: Committees
Ryan NicolDecember 6, 2022
Scott PowersDecember 3, 2020
6min374
President Wilton Simpson's announced committee assignments for Central Florida's Senators.
Jim RosicaJanuary 2, 2019
7min460
Sen. Lauren Book wants people to tell her and other lawmakers “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” The Plantation Democrat filed a bill (SB 58), called the “Truth in Government Act,” for the 2019 Legislative Session that would require people at legislative panels to be sworn in before speaking. The bill […]
Staff ReportsDecember 10, 2018
2min458
Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis’ Transition Team announced this week’s meeting schedule for his Transition Advisory Committees. A public conference call number will be made available on DeSantisTransition.com before the meetings for members of the public and news media who would like to listen in. Otherwise, meeting locations will be provided on the site soon: — The […]
Scott PowersNovember 28, 2018
7min298
Insurgent centrist Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives including U.S. Reps. Stephanie Murphy and Darren Soto from Central Florida have reached a deal with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Wednesday for rules reforms that would lead the party rebels to support her for House Speaker. The deal is lesser in sweep and commitment than the […]
Ryan NicolNovember 26, 2018
6min433
Democratic state Sen. Lauren Book and GOP state Sen. Manny Diaz are among the newly-named legislative committee chairs hailing from South Florida. Book, who represents Senate District 32, was one of only two Democrats (Tallahassee’s Bill Montford is the other) named to head a committee; she will lead the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder […]
Danny McAuliffeApril 2, 2018
8min617
Those backing a move to include LGBT protections under the 1992 Florida Civil Rights Act have a message for legislative leadership: We’ll be back. Just nine days into the 2018 Legislative Session, 40 percent of the Legislature had publicly supported bills that would have codified in statutes nondiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity. […]
Scott PowersJanuary 10, 2018
10min336
There’s that Sept. 30, 2009, check to the U.S. Senate campaign of former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio: It’s the $2,400 contribution to a Republican who then was seen as the darling of Florida’s Tea Party movement, an upstart whose explosive popularity on the right chased Charlie Crist from the Grand Old Party and made Democratic […]
Scott PowersNovember 21, 2016
2min273
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is urging congressional leadership to push through a federal Water Resources Development Act this year so repair work can begin on state Road A1A, destroyed in part of Flagler County by Hurricane Matthew. Nelson sent letters Monday to the chairs and ranking Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Environment & Public […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 20, 2016
11min225
Many of those outside the walls of the St. James Building in Jacksonville won’t take notice when Lori Boyer assumes the presidency of Jacksonville’s City Council from outgoing President Greg Anderson in less than two weeks. Chances are they will feel the effects though, as the second-term Southside Republican seeks to reassert the role of the legislative branch, […]