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Scott PowersJanuary 29, 2018

U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist is bringing a medical marijuana patient. U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch is bringing the wife of an American held hostage in Iran. U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel is bringing a trailblazing anti-sexual harassment advocate. U.S. Reps. Darren Soto and Stephanie Murphy are bringing Puerto Rico evacuees. U.S. Rep. Val Demings is bringing a police […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 24, 2018

Both of Florida’s U.S. senators and 22 of its House members are in a dither over mixed signals on offshore oil drilling from Washington. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke assured Gov. Rick Scott that Florida was “off the table” earlier this month. Soon, Zinke’s position was undercut by Ocean Energy Management Acting Director Walter Cruickshank’s telling the House Natural Resources […]

Drew WilsonJanuary 17, 2018

Republican Kurt Jetta announced Wednesday that he raised more than $88,000 in the fourth quarter 2017 and chipped in another $250,000 of his own money for his campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel in Florida’s 21st Congressional District. The fourth-quarter performance puts Jetta, so far Frankel’s only challenger, with $338,182 raised to date. […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 9, 2018

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A bipartisan group from Florida’s congressional delegation sent a letter to the Donald Trump administration opposing any rollback of safety regulations adopted after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. In a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the group of 20 lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans — warned that “an oil spill can devastate a regional […]

Scott PowersDecember 20, 2017

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz filed legislation Wednesday that would require congressional sexual harassment cases to automatically be referred to the House Ethics Committee. The “Me Too Congressional Ethics Act,” co-sponsored by Wasserman Schultz’s fellow Florida Democratic U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, is aimed at lifting the shroud of secrecy cloaking sexual harassment lawsuit settlements involving […]

Mitch PerryNovember 30, 2017

Palm Beach County Democrat Terrie Rizzo is receiving the support of three members of the Florida congressional delegation in her bid to become the state’s Democratic Party chair. Alcee Hastings, Ted Deutch and Lois Frankel — each representing districts that touch part of Palm Beach County — are backing Rizzo, who chairs the Palm Beach […]

Peter SchorschNovember 30, 2017

Margate Democrat Jeremy Ring scored a “hat trick” of endorsements for his CFO campaign from Florida’s congressional delegation Thursday, and now has the support of seven of the 11 Florida Democrats in the U.S. House. U.S. Reps. Lois Frankel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Frederica Wilson announced they were supporting the former state senator for CFO, […]

Mitch PerryNovember 9, 2017

Lois Frankel is backing Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in her bid to knock off GOP incumbent Carlos Curbelo in Florida’s 26th Congressional District in 2018. “Debbie is a leader in her community, working to expand health care access to underserved communities and provide scholarships for first-generation college students,” said the Palm Beach County Democratic congresswoman in a statement. […]

Scott PowersOctober 4, 2017

Saying, “they are for killing,” Florida’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson sponsored a bill Wednesday to ban so-called “bump stocks” like the ones Las Vegas police say Stephen Paddock used in his deadly slaughter Sunday night in Las Vegas. “I’m a hunter and have owned guns my whole life,” Nelson stated in a news release. “But […]

Scott PowersAugust 30, 2017

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz now has gotten the other ten Florida Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to join her call for a one-day Florida Legislature special session to replace Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith‘s statue in the U.S. Capitol. “We must denounce symbols of what supremacy and stand up for love and […]

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Democrats’ guests to State of the Union include DACA recipient, medical marijuana patient, hurricane evacuees

Majority of Florida Delegation demands clarity on White House offshore drilling position

Kurt Jetta raised $338K for bid to unseat Lois Frankel in CD 21

Most of Florida congressional delegation protests lifting oil rig safety rules

Debbie Wasserman Schultz files ‘#MeToo’ sexual misconduct ethics bill

A trio of South Florida U.S. Reps. back Terrie Rizzo for Fla. Dem. Chair

Jeremy Ring announces ‘hat trick’ of congressional endorsements for CFO bid

Lois Frankel endorses Debbie Mucarsel-Powell for Congress

Bill Nelson sponsors bill to ban bump stocks for assault weapons

Florida Democrats in Congress call for Florida special session to replace statue