Tag: mitch mcconnell

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.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., is co-sponsoring the proposal. 

Rubio announced on Tuesday that the Senate Republican Conference approved him to be the vice chairman of the committee where he will serve U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the new chairman.

Rubio first introduced the proposed amendment at the end of March 2019.

While former President Donald Trump left Washington early on Wednesday morning, some Republicans--including former President George W. Bush, former Vice Presidents Dan Quayle and Mike Pence and U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who went from Senate majority leader to minority leader on Wednesday--attended the inauguration. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., was on hand for the inauguration.