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Staff ReportsMarch 18, 2017

Saturday saw United States Vice-President Mike Pence and Florida Governor Rick Scott talking about what Pence called “the Obamacare nightmare” with small business owners in Jacksonville. Scott, who closed out the news week reprising a familiar call to allow the states to administer Medicaid via block grants, has worked closely with President Donald Trump and his administration on possible alternatives to the […]

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 — […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 2, 2017

U.S. Representative John Rutherford learned during his time running the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office how to do more with less discretionary spending. And it appears he has brought that skill set to the Congress, where he looks to do some cost cutting at the Department of Homeland Security. H.R. 1294, the Reducing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acquisition […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 1, 2017

Jacksonville’s two-man Congressional delegation, Reps. Al Lawson and John Rutherford, messaged to their respective bases in the wake of Tuesday night’s Presidential address to Congress. Democrat Lawson excoriated President Donald Trump as a “leader who is alienating Americans instead of bringing people together” and someone who delivers a “bunch of broken promises.” “Forty days after his inauguration, we […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 27, 2017

Former Jacksonville Sheriff and current U.S. Rep. John Rutherford was appointed on Monday to the newly-created Task Force on Denying Terrorists Entry into the United States. The task force, a subset of the House Committee on Homeland Security, will begin studying gaps on how terrorists in March and present findings to the larger committee. Congressman Rutherford said, “As […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 24, 2017

This is a pivotal time in Jacksonville’s city hall. With complete turnover in the city’s delegation to Washington and opportunities created by the new President, majority turnover in the city’s representation in Tallahassee, a revolutionary pension deal currently being approved by the city’s unions, and the imperiled fate of Enterprise Florida, this is a make […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 23, 2017

Thursday afternoon saw a “constituent town hall” outside the Jacksonville district office of Rep. John Rutherford. The event, which drew roughly 200 people at its peak, was organized days ago: a reaction to the congressman choosing to forego the kinds of town hall events seen in other GOP districts during this congressional recess, events where […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 22, 2017

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. John Rutherford addressed a group of young Catholic professionals at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Jacksonville. Though the speech was about faith, there were some intersections with the political world — including Rutherford discussing his ongoing recovery from a January medical episode (he collapsed in the cloakroom of the House of Representatives), and […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 21, 2017

U.S. Rep. John Rutherford has no plans for an official town hall while in his Jacksonville-centered district this week. Yet those interested in catching the first-term Republican have an opportunity Tuesday evening, when Rutherford addresses the Young Catholic Professionals at St. Joseph’s Church in Mandarin. The event, which will be held at the “Cody Family Enrichment Center” on […]

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 […]

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Mike Pence: ‘Florida can’t afford Obamacare anymore’

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

John Rutherford introduces homeland security spending reform bill

Al Lawson, John Rutherford diverge on Presidential address to Congress

John Rutherford appointed to counterterrorism task force

Lenny Curry outlines Jacksonville’s legislative priorities, talks pension and Enterprise Florida

John Rutherford draws criticism in absentia at ‘constituent town hall’

John Rutherford: ‘I thought I was facing death’

John Rutherford to meet constituents at Jacksonville Catholic Church on Tuesday

Florida congressional delegation asks Donald Trump to support Everglades restoration