Thomas C. Feeney

WASHINGTON — If Congress was a high school (which doesn’t seem like a stretch sometimes) then a fundraising event planned for Thursday night would be the equivalent of a Florida Republican pep rally, aimed at generating support for two rookies...

Republican congressional candidate Dan Webster still has not responded to the Orlando Sentinel's request for comment about the new TV attack from Democratic opponent Alan Grayson that labels him “Taliban Dan.” But a short while ago, the...

Electronic voting machines are being blamed for anxiety in Nevada as several early voters are complaining that when they began to cast their ballot Majority Leader Harry Reid's name was already selected. Boulder City resident Joyce Ferrara, who wanted to....

Like so many candidates before him, Republican U.S. Senate frontrunner Marco Rubio today made the mandatory pilgrimage to Florida's Space Coast to learn of the concerns and the frustrations seizing NASA's Kennedy Space Center and local aerospace co...

As expected, the 2010 census has awarded Florida another two seats in the U.S. House. Orlando and Tampa grew faster than other parts of the state, so those areas would have to be the favorites to wind up with the new seats. Legislators will b...

WASHINGTON — Incoming U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Winter Garden, didn't have to look far when picking his first chief of staff, selecting Capitol Hill veteran Pepper Pennington, a Florida native and graduate of Edgewater High School. Most recently, ...

WASHINGTON — It may be new to freshman U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Orlando, but her recent selection to the House panel with NASA oversight — announced by Adams today — is not unexpected. Central Florida has a long tradition of getting...

It's fascinating to hear so many politicians suddenly concerned about the deficit. Because, until now, most of them didn't give a flip. Politicians from both parties went through money like Charlie Sheen went through coke. And they didn't even have the...

I'm looking at one of the many mail pieces that Rick Scott sent me when he was trying to win my vote. In it, Rick's wearing a hard hat. And he's promising to "Stand up to the Tallahassee insiders" and "End business as usual." I'd like that. But I'...

WASHINGTON — Two aides to former U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney could get a chance for revenge later this year, as Jason Roe and Cheryl Moore have joined the campaign of one candidate looking to oust Democrat U.S. Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, who beat Feeney in 2008....

TALLAHASSEE — In that elusive club of past presiding officers of the Legislature, it pays to be a member. Just ask former Florida House Speaker-turned-congressional candidate Dan Webster, who picked up the endorsements Wednesday of two other...

Republicans are itching to kick first-term Democrat Suzanne Kosmas out of the U.S. House, especially after she went from voting against to voting for health-care reform. Her flip flop was enough to persuade one nonpartisan electio...