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Death and taxes — you can't escape either and both are events we can do without. Whether you filed your income taxes early or waited till the last minute, tax day casts a dark shadow on your calendar. In a perfect world, the Internal Revenue Service would not exist and tax day would just be another day.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —The Jacksonville Port Authority unveiled Monday a new facility it is calling a game changer for the River City’s global trade competitiveness.
The first rail cargo operations are getting underway at the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF). The $30 million facility was funded through state and federal grants.
WASHINGTON —
House Republicans are bringing back efforts to strip federal funding from cities and counties that don’t help enforce federal immigration laws.
Florida Rep. Ted Yoho is one of dozens of lawmakers urging the Appropriations Committee in a letter to defund “sanctuary cities.”
With major U.S. trade initiatives working their way between the legislative and executive branches, the future of U.S. trade policy has taken center stage in the 2016 presidential contests. As candidates make their way through the various primaries in both manufacturing and agricultural states, each is outlining their plans for how they might make better deals for the United States.
Believes there will be a clash over the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court
President’s Obama’s Supreme Court nominee would carry a liberal-progressive agenda to the nation’s highest court, according to Northeast Florida Republican Congressman Ted Yoho.
“I’m not a big fan of his,” Yoho says of appeals court judge Merrick Garland.
“Today, the credibility of America’s Middle East policy has been severely damaged by a White House whose Mideast strategy can best be described as unclear, inconsistent, and lacking follow-through.” You probably think this came from one of my press releases, but it is actually from an article by Joseph V.
The Obama administration just admitted the number of released Guantanamo Bay detainees suspected of returning to terrorist activities has doubled from July 2015 to January 2016.
Congressional Republicans are turning to a congressman from North Florida to play a major role in their effort to stop President Barack Obama from shutting down the terrorist holding facility at the Guantanamo Bay military base.
Republicans want to make sure there’s no chance the Obama administration can shut down Gitmo by returning the land on which the facility is built to Cuba.GOP Rep.
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