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Scott PowersApril 14, 2017

After watching Orlando just miss the cut for federal counter-terrorism grants the past two years, Orlando’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings is putting together a bipartisan push to get such money increased to help mid-sized cities. Demings and U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican whose hometown of San Antonio also got passed over for […]

Scott PowersMarch 24, 2017

Democratic U.S. Rep Alcee Hastings, joined by both Florida U.S. senators and seven South Florida members of Congress, is calling on the President Donald Trump administration to extend temporary protected status for Haitian nationals. Hastings, from Fort Lauderdale, sent a letter Friday to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly urging the extended protection for […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 21, 2017

In the end, everybody in the U.S. House of Representatives agreed that Rep. John Rutherford‘s first bill needed to become law. As the 408-0 vote in the House Tuesday reflected. H.R. 1294, the Reducing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acquisition Cost Growth Act, seeks to stop wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars by agencies like the Transportation […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 8, 2017

H.R. 1294, the Reducing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acquisition Cost Growth Act, seeks to stop wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars by agencies like the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. On Wednesday, the bill — a priority of first-term Republican Rep. John Rutherford — […]

Mitch PerryAugust 4, 2016

Taking his cue from a warning by FBI Director James Comey of “a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we’ve never seen before,” Sarasota area GOP Congressman Vern Buchanan is calling on the White House to put an immediate halt to accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S. “Terrorists are leaving Syria disguised as refugees and carrying out […]

Keith MorelliJuly 7, 2016

With 11 new cases of Zika reported in Florida Wednesday — the most yet in a single day — leading congressional Democrats renewed a plea to resurrect a bipartisan $1.1 billion spending bill to fight what they call a silent epidemic that is gaining a foothold in the United States. Florida Sen. Bill Nelson fired off a letter to Senate Majority […]

Shannon NickinsonAugust 9, 2015

I know that the beautiful sunsets and sugar-white sands can inspire flights of fancy in every brain. I know that the heat and humidity can make even the most focused mind wander. But some folks need to come in out of the sun. The July 31 murders of 76-year-old Voncile Smith and her two sons, […]

Tag: Homeland Security

Val Demings pushes for more federal counter-terrorism money

Alcee Hastings seeks to extend protected status for Haitians

John Rutherford Homeland Security spending reform bill clears House 408-0

John Rutherford Homeland Security spending reform bill clears U.S. House committee

Vern Buchanan tells President Obama to stop accepting Syrian refugees

Congressional Dems renew plea to get Zika funding passed

Shannon Nickinson: Murders, gruesome clues, waterfront project, City Hall intrigue roil Pensacola’s bubble