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Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service, are predicting above-average hurricane activity this year — which would make it the seventh consecutive...

This week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., called on the Biden administration to take legal action against ZTE, a Chinese tech company with ties to that nation’s regime. Rubio wrote U.S. Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo...

Members of the Florida delegation sent a bipartisan letter to U.S Department of Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo urging her to reject a request for a Changed Circumstances Review which seeks to exempt certain greenhouse-grown...

On Wednesday, members of the Florida delegation on Capitol Hill signed on a letter led by U.S. Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., and David Cicilline, D-RI, to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S....

With American ports continuing to experience severe cargo delays while families prepare for the holiday season, and inflation has jumped to its highest rate in more than 30 years, last week, U.S. Sen. Rick...

This week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Tom Cotton, R-Miss., Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., in a letter urging U.S. Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo to blacklist...

This week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., requested an update from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo after the department reached its own deadline to provide the White House a report with recommendations to...

On Wednesday, members of the Florida delegation sent a letter to U.S. Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo urging that the Department approve Florida’s request for disaster assistance for fisheries that were harmed by severe red tide events that occurred between 2015 and 2019. 

“For 2021, a likely range of 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), of which 6 to 10 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including 3 to 5 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher) is expected. NOAA provides these ranges with a 70 percent confidence.”

The letter comes as the European Union tariff on American whiskey is scheduled to double to 50 percent in June.

U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Ben Sasse, R-Neb., sent a letter to Gov. Gina Raimondo, D-RI, President Joe Biden’s nominee for U.S. Commerce secretary, following comments “suggesting that all aspects of the approach to U.S. economic and technological competition are up for review.”

Now another Democrat from the Sunshine State is being mentioned as Biden’s possible understudy: U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla.