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Mitch PerryFebruary 28, 2018

Fresh off a Cuban visit last week, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor is calling on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to return consular officials and diplomatic personnel to the U.S. Embassy in Havana as soon as possible. Tillerson withdrew 60 percent of diplomats from the embassy in Havana last fall after unexplained attacks harmed at least […]

Mitch PerryNovember 21, 2017

Chanting “tax cuts will destroy us,” a group of citizens marched a block from MacDill Park to a Wells Fargo bank in downtown Tampa on Tuesday to protest the recently passed tax reform plan in the House and warn against approval of the Republican Senate’s tax reform plan that could be voted on next week. […]

Mitch PerryNovember 20, 2017

Democratic U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined his Florida colleague Bill Nelson at a business roundtable discussion in Tampa Monday. At the event, the two lawmakers blasted the GOP tax reform bill that passed the House last week and could come up in the Senate as early as next […]

Scott PowersOctober 18, 2017

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The U.S. Senate Finance Committee announced today that it is launching an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 14 residents at The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills nursing home in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The investigation comes following a request from Florida’s U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a senior member of the committee. […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 12, 2017

In a letter to the chairman and ranking member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday cited the case of the now-infamous Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills to urge an investigation of nursing home regulation oversight. During Hurricane Irma, the facility lost power — setting into motion a chain of events that led […]

Associated PressFebruary 25, 2017

FBI Director James Comey is again in a familiar spot these days – the middle of political tumult. As a high-ranking Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, he clashed with the White House over a secret surveillance program. Years later as head of the FBI, he incurred the ire of Hillary Clinton […]

Associated PressFebruary 15, 2017

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The Republican-led Senate is moving to block an Obama-era regulation that would prevent an estimated 75,000 people with mental disorders from being able to purchase a firearm. The Obama administration had sought to strengthen the federal background check system with a rule requiring the Social Security Administration to send in the names of beneficiaries with […]

Associated PressFebruary 1, 2017

Republicans jammed two of President Donald Trump‘s top Cabinet picks through the Senate Finance Committee with no Democrats in the room Wednesday after suspending a rule that would have otherwise barred them from taking the vote. The tactic seemed a warning shot that they might deploy brute political muscle in the upcoming fight over the […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 24, 2016

A bill that bans the state of Florida from doing business with any company that boycotts the nation of Israel has passed through both houses of the Legislature, and will soon go to Governor Rick Scott’s desk. The legislation is a shot at at the growing international movement to boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) the Israeli […]

Mitch PerryOctober 27, 2015

Jeb Bush released proposals on Tuesday to limit the rising costs of Medicare and Social Security in a blog post first published on his website. Regarding Medicare, Bush said he supports “Medicare premium support,” where the federal health care program for seniors will provide a fixed amount toward a set of guaranteed options. It’s a […]

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Abortion rights protesters. Image via AP.

Kathy Castor urges Rex Tillerson to restore U.S. diplomats to Cuba

Tampa Bay sees protest of GOP tax proposals

Ron Wyden visits Bill Nelson in Tampa to call for bipartisanship in tax reform

U.S. Senate panel to investigate Hollywood Hills tragedy, at Bill Nelson’s request

Marco Rubio presses Senate panel on nursing home oversight

James Comey in middle of political fray over Donald Trump and Russians

U.S. Senate will consider blocking rule on guns and mentally ill

GOP pushes 2 top Cabinet picks through to full Senate

Florida Legislature bans state from doing business with any company that boycotts Israel

Jeb Bush plan on Medicare includes scaling back retirement benefits for wealthier Americans