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Mitch PerryFebruary 14, 2017

Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Tuesday that the revelations about former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn’s conversations with the Russians are only the beginning. “Flynn’s resignation marks a beginning, not an end,” said the South Florida Democratic Representative in a statement on Tuesday. Flynn resigned Monday night after it reports were confirmed over the weekend that he discussed […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 3, 2017

Congressman Francis Rooney is calling on Donald Trump to support Everglades restoration, with a letter to the president saying that Everglades restoration “has far-ranging impacts to the entire state of Florida and the rest of the country.” Signed by the entire Florida delegation, the two-page letter was dated Friday. The letter asks that Trump prepares his fiscal […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 31, 2017

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz blasted President Trump Tuesday morning, a day after he fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates for what the White House called “refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.” “I think it’s important to note that she did exactly what she said she would do […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 30, 2017

Sunday marked the eighth anniversary of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which gives people who experience pay discrimination more time to file a complaint. Although the bill (the first signed into law by Barack Obama) was designed to close the wage gap between males and females in the U.S., Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says that President […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 29, 2017

Democrats across Florida are blasting President Donald Trump‘s executive order, which suspends for 120 days the entry of all refugees from certain Muslim countries to the United States. The order, signed Friday, bands Syrian refugees indefinitely, and for 90 days, it blocks entry into the U.S. for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Among […]

Darryl PaulsonJanuary 19, 2017

(Part 2 of the Obama legacy) With the inauguration of Donald Trump, it is a good time to review the electoral impact of eight years of the Obama White House. One of the impacts is the election of Trump which surprised the entire political universe. Whatever Obama may have achieved in public policy, it is […]

Staff ReportsJanuary 19, 2017

A hush has fallen on the state capital. Sure, there’s plenty of work to do before the start of the 2017 Legislative Session. But some Florida politicos are using this week to flee Florida and head to Washington, D.C., for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Gov. Rick Scott will be there. An ardent supporter of the […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 18, 2017

Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, is poised to be grilled by Senate Democrats when he appears Wednesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The six-term Georgia Republican congressman has been one of the leading opponents of the Affordable Care Act in Congress, and an advocate for the restructuring of the […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 17, 2017

In an interview last week with FloridaPolitics.com, Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, blasted Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary. Weingarten compared DeVos’ zeal for school-choice vouchers on par with what former Gov. Jeb Bush was all about during his reign in Florida. Debbie Wasserman Schultz agrees. Hours before DeVos is […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 14, 2017

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The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote Friday on scrapping the Affordable Care Act, two days after the Republican-led Senate voted to do so after hearing from President-elect Donald Trump that they should act quickly to repeal the law. The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said earlier this month that repealing President Barack Obama’s signature health insurance […]

Tag: Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Michael Flynn’s resignation ‘marks a beginning, not an end’

Florida congressional delegation asks Donald Trump to support Everglades restoration

Debbie Wasserman Schultz tells Fox Business that Donald Trump ‘believes he was elected dictator’

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says pay wage gap in U.S. getting worse

Kathy Castor calls Donald Trump order on refugees ‘illegal, immoral and un-American’

Obama’s electoral legacy: After 8 years, we get a Donald Trump

Floridians head to D.C. for Donald Trump inauguration

Debbie Wasserman Schultz accuses HHS nominee Tom Price as another of Donald Trump’s ‘swamp’

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Betsy DeVos will take U.S. schools down a path of failure ‘Florida knows all too well’

Florida Dem. congressional members to hold rallies for ACA this Sunday