Scott PowersJanuary 15, 2019
3min538
She sends the White House regrets on border wall talk due to a schedule conflict.
Tag: Stephanie Murphy
Scott PowersJanuary 15, 2019Scott PowersJanuary 10, 2019
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Winter Park’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy just got a seat at the grown-ups table in the House of Representatives, joining the House Ways and Means Committee. Murphy, just starting her second term, announced late Wednesday that she had been appointed to the chief tax-writing committee, with oversight on federal programs such as Medicare, Social Security […]
Scott PowersDecember 20, 2018
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Winter Park’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy is flexing her muscle in front of House Speaker-Designate Nancy Pelosi again, this time to seek her backing of automatic voter registration. Murphy, the new chair of the Future Forum, a caucus of young Democrats in the House, sent a letter Thursday to Pelosi of California and Democratic Leader-Designate […]
Scott PowersDecember 19, 2018
9min529
Lest anyone think that U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy‘s ascendency this fall into leadership of the Democrats’ centrist “Blue Dog Coalition” is about the Winter Park congresswoman rebranding herself with that group’s history of conservative politics, a Washington Post story Tuesday suggests she is, rather, helping rebrand the Blue Dogs. For Murphy it’s not a matter of […]
Scott PowersDecember 6, 2018
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Winter Park’s U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy has received another leadership role in Congress, elected chair of “Future Forum,” a caucus of young Democrats in Congress seeking to pursue positions of interest to millennials. Murphy’s office announced Thursday that she was unanimously elected to head the 50-member group of young Democrats in Congress, just over a […]
Scott PowersNovember 28, 2018
7min298
Insurgent centrist Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives including U.S. Reps. Stephanie Murphy and Darren Soto from Central Florida have reached a deal with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Wednesday for rules reforms that would lead the party rebels to support her for House Speaker. The deal is lesser in sweep and commitment than the […]
Scott PowersNovember 27, 2018
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The centrist Democratic caucus Blue Dog Coalition has elected Winter Park’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy as their leader for the 116th Congress. Murphy, entering her second term in Congress, was unanimously elected Tuesday evening to serve as c0-chair for administration, the most senior leadership position administration for the 24-member coalition. Murphy, who is Vietnamese-American, […]
Scott PowersNovember 26, 2018
5min264
Outside groups spent more than $37 million on U.S. House races in Florida’s general election, putting more than $1 million in seven different contests, with Republicans winning four and Democrats, three. The big money, about half of all the outside cash that rained into Florida’s general election for U.S. House contests, poured into Florida’s 26th […]
Scott PowersNovember 26, 2018
5min410
The nine insurgent Democrats of the congressional Problem Solvers Caucus including U.S. Reps. Stephanie Murphy and Darren Soto are down to pushing Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for three key concessions before agreeing to support her for House Speaker. The three concessions call for two changes that would require debates and votes on bills that get […]
Scott PowersNovember 23, 20184min238
Centrist Demorats including Florida’s U.S. Reps. Stephanie Murphy and Darren Soto seeking broad rules reform in the U.S. House of Representatives responded Friday to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi‘s appeasement effort by saying it is not good enough and they cannot support her for House Speaker. “We will only vote for a Speaker candidate who supports […]