Tom Rooney

Two out of three Floridians support or strongly support the idea that immigration reform should include a pathway to citizenship for some undocumented residents, according to a new poll. The political activism group Project New America with support from...

Some Florida Democrats had mixed feelings about their vote on Friday to help travelers and prevent flight delays by averting furloughs of air traffic controllers. They joined the majority House vote of 361 to 41 to pass the transportation bill but...

Two Republican members of Congress who are also military veterans have introduced a bill that would lower the rating of the new Distinguished Warfare Medal, which can be given to drone pilots and cyber warriors. The legislation would prohibit the...

South Florida families on food stamps won't have to worry about the federal government cutting the food program: The U.S. Senate extended the current provisions for another nine months as part of the federal farm policy. "It helps us immensely," said...

Get the latest results for today's federal, state and county races. President 5852 of 6088 precincts reporting Barack Obama 49.9% 3,977,167 Mitt Romney 49.2% 3,924,092 Gary Johnson 0.5% 42,123 Jill Stein 0.1% 8,382 Roseanne Barr 0.1% 7,708...

By Dick J. Batchelor First, I have to admit that I know Huma Abedin, and we have met on a number occasions. So yes, guilty as charged of rubbing elbows with the deputy chief of staff and trusted aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It is...

South Florida will be hit hard if the Congress goes through in cutting $16 billion out the food stamp program -- with a record number of South Floridians continuing to apply to the program to feed their families, social service workers said Monday. The...

Wondering which members of Congress spend the most of your money running their offices?  Well, USA Today recently crunched all the data  and found that, locally, Democrat Corrine Brown and Republican Cliff Stearns were the big spenders, while...

Democrats and Republicans, political operatives and elected officials, Broward and Palm Beach county residents all agree: In the South Florida battleground of white-hot 2012 election contests, none is hotter than the showdown between two incumbent state...

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, launched a vigorous attack during a congressional hearing on the state of Florida's proposed purge of more than 2,600 “non-citizen” voters, saying the list of names sent to 67 county elections supervisors...

When George Washington took the oath of the presidency in 1789, each of the 65 members of the inaugural Congress represented roughly 30,000 people. As the population of the country grew, it became necessary to reflect those changes in the representation...