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Scott PowersMay 15, 2017

Orlando’s U.S. Rep. Val Demings and Miami’s U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen made a week-long visit to visit troops in Afghanistan and Iraq this week, including a Mother’s Day visit at which Demings was able to deliver cards from students in her Florida’s 10th Congressional District. Demings, a Democrat, and Ros-Lehtinen were part of a bipartisan group […]

Mitch PerryMay 11, 2017

Bad news for Carlos Curbelo, Brian Mast, and other Florida Republicans in vulnerable Congressional Districts in 2018 who voted for the American Health Care Act. Only 21 percent of American voters approve of the GOP health care plan passed by the House last week, according to a Quinnipiac survey released Thursday. That’s a slight improvement over […]

Scott PowersMay 10, 2017

Democratic state Rep. David Richardson is preparing for a run for Congress in Florida’s Congressional District 27 now that Republican U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros–Lehtinen is retiring. Richardson, of Miami Beach, who won his last re-election with 65 percent in his House District 113 entirely inside CD 27, said he is traveling to Washington D.C. in […]

Phil AmmannMay 3, 2017

As Ileana Ros-Lehtinen retires from the U.S. House when her term ends after next year, she is leaving behind an impressive tenure. To put context on Ros-Lehtinen’s lengthy time in office, Eric Ostermeier of Smart Politics examined how the Miami Republican compared to female colleagues and predecessors over the decades in Congress. When Ros-Lehtinen exits […]

Associated PressMay 3, 2017

Marco Rubio is announcing several new promotions and staff hires in his Washington, D.C. office. Lauren Reamy, a member of the Florida Senator’s staff since 2015, has been promoted to Legislative Director. Robert “Bobby” Zarate will lead Rubio’s foreign policy team after joining the staff as a Senior Foreign Policy adviser in December 2016, and […]

Scott PowersMay 1, 2017

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and three Florida members of Congress, Democrats U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ted Deutch, and Republican Vern Buchanan sounded an alarm Monday against President Donald Trump‘s potential interests in oil and gas drilling off Florida’s coasts and said they’re gathering bipartisan support in opposition. Nelson, Wasserman Schultz of Weston, and […]

Guest AuthorApril 30, 2017

I have been honored and humbled to serve our South Florida community for almost four decades. From helping everyday people with constituent cases to standing up to dictators around the world, I am proud of the work we have accomplished over the years. However, it is now time to take a new step. With the […]

Staff ReportsApril 14, 2017

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First-term Democratic Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez is challenging to Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for Congress in 2018. The Miami Herald reports that Gonzalez is the second Democrat to file in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, recently redrawn and now leaning Democratic. In 2016, Hilary Clinton defeated Donald Trump by 20 percentage points in CD 27. […]

Scott PowersApril 10, 2017

The latest Cook Political Report’s Partisan Voting Index finds that just one Florida congressional district leans more than 20 percent Republican while two lean more than 20 percent Democrat – and two Republicans occupy seats in districts that lean Democratic. The report, on the partisan makeup and voting records of all 435 districts in the […]

Mitch PerryMarch 28, 2017

No one knows when President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans will make another attempt at repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Some hard-line GOP lawmakers want to force a repeal-only bill back onto the floor, once again putting several House Republicans on the spot. On Friday, Alabama Republican Mo Brooks, part of the House Freedom Caucus, filed […]

Tag: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Crowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)

Val Demings, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen spend Mother’s Day with women troops in Iraq, Afghanistan

Larry Sabato moves Carlos Curbelo’s CD 26 race to ‘Toss-up’

David Richardson preparing for run in CD 27

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to exit Congress as sixth all-time tenure for female House members

Marco Rubio D.C. office to make several personnel changes, new hires

Bill Nelson, Debbie Wasserman Schultz vow bipartisan opposition to drilling

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Why I’m retiring from Congress

Miami Beach commissioner to challenge Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in 2018

Cook Report: How Florida’s 27 congressional districts stack up in partisan divides

National Dems ask if Ileana Ros-Lehtinen supports new petition to repeal ACA