Ryan NicolJune 18, 2019
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“We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity."
Tag: Department of Health and Human ServicesElizabeth Martinez Strauss. Image via campaign.
Ryan NicolJune 18, 2019Ryan NicolApril 8, 2019
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They wanted to inspect the facility ahead of a planned expansion.
Staff ReportsJune 22, 2018
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U.S. officials provided a glimpse Friday into a South Florida facility housing more than 1,000 teenage migrants, seeking to dispel any suggestions that children are being mistreated. Private contractors who run the center for unaccompanied minors in Homestead showed journalists around the campus like-complex for about an hour. Journalists were not permitted to interview the […]
Associated PressSeptember 26, 2017
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Premiums for health care plans sold on the Affordable Care Act’s federal exchange and outside the exchange will rise an average of 45 percent in Florida this year, according to state officials. However that doesn’t mean consumers will end up spending more money. In fact, they could end up seeing slight decreases. Florida’s Office of […]
Associated PressJanuary 24, 2017
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The Latest on activities in Congress (all times EST): 12:25 p.m. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has overwhelmingly approved South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley‘s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. By voice vote, the panel recommended President Donald Trump‘s selection of Haley to the full Senate. She is expected to be confirmed […]
Associated PressNovember 29, 2016
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President-elect Donald Trump moved to fill out his Cabinet Tuesday, tapping Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Aides signaled that at least one other Cabinet nomination was imminent. The president-elect appeared to still be torn over his choice for secretary of state. He summoned former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterNovember 29, 2016
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The Florida Medical Association is praising Donald Trump for his Health and Human Services pick. The Associated Press reported on Monday that the president-elect selected Georgia Rep. Tom Price, a critic of the Affordable Care Act, to head the Department of Health and Human Services. If confirmed by the Senate, he is expected to play […]
A.G. GancarskiNovember 16, 2016
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott is making a pilgrimage to New York today to visit the president-elect at Trump Tower. But why? POLITICO reports Gov. Scott is to “congratulate” Donald Trump “on his big win and help him reinvent government.” Laudable goals, and the governor assures us he’s not interested in being part of the Cabinet, as he is […]
Staff ReportsSeptember 27, 2016
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U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan praised the inclusion of $1.1 billion to combat the Zika virus in a must-pass government funding bill expected to be approved by Congress this week. “Florida urgently needs additional money to help fight Zika and protect our citizens,” the Sarasota Republican said in a statement Tuesday. “Funding should have been approved […]
Jim RosicaSeptember 7, 2016
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A throng of Democratic and Republican state House members — 61 in all — are asking the federal government to let Florida deploy genetically modified mosquitoes in the battle against the Zika virus. “This modified mosquito, developed by the company Oxitec, has proven exceptionally effective,” said their letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, also signed […]