Tag: Florida

President Trump is on track to spend more than his predecessor on travel, according to records obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump’s political, leisure travel costs may end up topping Obama’s

Steven Nelson · January 19, 2018 11:03 pm

Florida Gov. Rick Scott and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had announced there will be no new offshore drilling in the State of Florida. (Scott Keeler/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Energy and Environment

Drilling off Florida’s coast not ‘off the table,’ Interior official says

Josh Siegel · January 19, 2018 7:35 pm

President Trump was scheduled to leave for Mar-a-Lago on Friday afternoon, but may delay his departure to his Florida estate until the Senate passes a short-term funding bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump cancels Mar-a-Lago trip in shutdown scramble

Sarah Bedford · January 19, 2018 2:22 pm

President Trump plans to celebrate his one-year anniversary in the White House at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump to celebrate one-year inauguration anniversary at Mar-a-Lago gala: Report

Daniel Chaitin · January 19, 2018 3:55 am

Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., tried to make a one-minute case against offshore drilling. But it seems like his floor chart was made in one minute as well. (Screenshot via Twitter / Philip Wegmann)

Beltway Confidential

Arts, crafts, and Rep. Francis Rooney’s homemade floor chart

Philip Wegmann · January 18, 2018 7:41 pm

If this is indeed how things are run in the Sunshine State, it sounds like voters have more than just one rotten apple. The whole bushel sounds rotten. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)

Beltway Confidential

Amazingly enough, the story of that ousted Florida lawmaker gets worse

Becket Adams · January 16, 2018 5:43 pm

State records reveal that at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida two primary kitchens received 15 violations during inspections.

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago cited for 15 food safety violations: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · January 16, 2018 12:33 am

Price increases caused by the mandate's repeal could be revealed by Obamacare insurers right before voters head to the polls in November for the 2018 midterm elections, providing a possible boost for Democrats already favored in the elections.

The Obamacare individual mandate is repealed. Here’s what’s next

Robert King · January 14, 2018 5:01 am

Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan says when people ask him about the White House or say his name is in the mix, it's because of his connection to the issues in parts of the country where Democrats keep losing. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

The rise of Tim Ryan, the Rust Belt Democrat

Salena Zito · January 14, 2018 5:00 am

Florida has long exerted a veto on drilling anywhere remotely close to its shores. (iStock photo)

Energy and Environment

Oil-dark politics off the Sunshine State

Washington Examiner · January 11, 2018 5:01 am

The meeting in which Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (pictured above) and Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., agreed to exempt Florida from the offshore drilling proposal was the first "in what I believe will be a series of conversations" with other governors, Zinke said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Energy and Environment

Ryan Zinke promises to meet with all governors who oppose his offshore drilling plan

Josh Siegel · January 10, 2018 11:15 pm

The American Petroleum Institute and others in the energy industry had been excited about drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. (iStock photo)

Energy and Environment

Oil group blasts Ryan Zinke’s ‘premature’ decision to block drilling in eastern Gulf

Josh Siegel · January 10, 2018 8:37 pm