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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is all that is left of what was once the Republican establishment. Sure, there are still some GOP voters who agree with McConnell, and he has like-minded lieutenants serving...

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., held off U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and will remain the GOP leader in the U.S. Senate. McConnell won 37 votes while Scott pulled ten votes and one...

After the GOP’s failure to flip control of the U.S. Senate in last week’s elections, on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., announced he will challenge U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as...

There are “Republicans for Kelly” backing the incumbent Democratic senator in Arizona and Republicans supporting Attorney General Josh Shapiro in his gubernatorial race in Pennsylvania. While Democrats can hardly believe the love – and...

While U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is part of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s, R-Ky., leadership team, they are on different sides of an agreement backed by Democrats and some Republicans on guns. The...

With recent declines in President Joe Biden’s polling numbers, Republicans are optimistic about their chances in the 2022 elections Republicans have been feeling so good lately about their chances next year that they are already...

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill over the opposition of both senators from the Sunshine State. After months of negotiation, the bill cleared the Senate on a 69-30 vote with...

This week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., doubled down on their support of a proposal “which would ban a doctor from performing an abortion being sought because the unborn child has Down syndrome.”

Florida’s two U.S. senators--Marco Rubio and Rick Scott--joined U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and more than 30 members of the Senate Republican Conference in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona requesting the withdrawal of the Department’s “Proposed Priorities” on American history and civics education. 

The proposal garnered differing responses from two key members of the Florida delegation on Capitol Hill.

Specifically, the senators indicated they would not consent to any legislation that would benefit the Cuban regime.

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the severity and frequency of family violence and sexual assault, with increased isolation, economic insecurity and limited access to services leaving victims particularly vulnerable.