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Associated PressAugust 27, 2017

The election of President Donald Trump and Republican control of Congress meant the National Rifle Association could probably rest easy that gun laws wouldn’t change for at least four years. But the NRA has begun a campaign not against pending legislation but what it sees as liberal forces bent on undoing the progress it’s made […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 22, 2017

On Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio spoke on Capitol Hill with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, addressing U.S. international engagement and needed reforms at the U.N. It was more like a puff-piece interview than a probing dialogue, with no daylight between positions and rhetoric of the two. Rubio referred to one of Haley’s challenges being that […]

Scott PowersJune 1, 2017

Florida Democrats slammed the anticipated announcement by President Donald Trump that he would pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, while several Florida Republicans urged Trump to keep America in the agreement. Members of Congress and other political leaders were reacting late Tuesday and Wednesday to reports that Trump intends to withdraw […]

Drew WilsonMarch 13, 2017

Democratic Sen. Kevin Rader called on the Florida Senate officially oppose a United Nations resolution that would classify Israeli settlements in historically Palestinian areas as legally invalid. “Filing this resolution hits very close to home,” Rader said. “It is personal because my family lives in Israel and I, my wife and kids constantly go back […]

Associated PressJanuary 24, 2017

The Latest on activities in Congress (all times EST): 12:25 p.m. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has overwhelmingly approved South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley‘s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. By voice vote, the panel recommended President Donald Trump‘s selection of Haley to the full Senate. She is expected to be confirmed […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterJanuary 23, 2017

A South Florida Democrat has filed a resolution calling on the Florida House to stand with Congress in its condemnation of the United Nations. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Coral Springs Democrat, filed a resolution (HR 281) last week objecting to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334. “The passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 […]

Scott PowersDecember 6, 2016

Talk about stopping the export of jobs: U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has added an amendment to a likely to pass bill that seeks to get the United Nations to hire more Americans. Citing U.N. data, Grayson’s office argued that the United States pays 22 percent of the international organization’s budget; yet only 6 percent of […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 30, 2016

The ethics office in Jacksonville’s city hall is still going strong, and director Carla Miller is getting international attention this week. Miller will be headed to Panama City — the one on the isthmus, not the one due west on the panhandle — this week to moderate a panel at the United Nations’ 17th International Anti-Corruption conference […]

Guest AuthorMarch 24, 2016

While serving as Lt. Governor of Florida, I had the opportunity to speak on the phone with Elsa Morejon, the wife of a political prisoner in Cuba, Dr. Oscar Biscet. Friends of Elsa had asked me to contact her and encourage her while her husband lingered in a maximum-security prison run by the communist police […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 26, 2016

Marco Rubio poses as a national security expert. Perhaps among the Republican contenders, he’s the closest thing they’ve got. In which case, God help us all. A Washington Post story over the weekend indicates that Rubio’s interest in national security was just a pose from the beginning. As a rising star in the Florida House, […]

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NRA’s video message to ‘elites’: ‘We’re coming for you’

Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley talk Israel, UN reform needs

Florida Democrats express outrage, Republicans concern, over possible exit from Paris climate accord

Kevin Rader files resolution to oppose United Nations Security Council decision

Senate panel approves Nikki Haley nomination to U.N.

Jared Moskowitz files resolution condemning U.N. Security Council Israeli settlement vote

Alan Grayson adds amendment to get U.N. to hire Americans

Jacksonville ethics officer headed to Panama for anti-corruption panel

Jeff Kottkamp: Obama should show outrage over Cuba’s human rights violations

Jac VerSteeg: Marco Rubio is a national security shirker