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U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite is among the 249 co-sponsors of a House bill that seeks to monitor the Federal Reserve System more closely.

Floridians have received less federal stimulus money than any of their fellow Americans, despite an unemployment rate here that ranks among the highest in the country and a budget crisis that few states can match.

The days of automated phone calls, lines and long commutes could be coming to an end for local Social Security recipients.

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 10:58 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 10:58 a.m. Let the "Dockery for Governor" talk heat up just a tad.

Senators Kent Conrad and Sen. Pat Roberts have introduced S. 1297, The Retirement Security for Life Act.

Published: Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 5:07 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 5:07 a.m. WASHINGTON In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation's first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in a new era of cleaner, ...

As financial markets tumbled and the government worked to stave off panic by pumping billions of dollars into banks last fall, several members of Congress who oversee the banking industry were grabbing up or dumping bank stocks.

Today in Washington, the House has a historic opportunity to put the nation on a new course toward sustainable living and energy independence.

The House Financial Services Committee shapes federal banking laws and conducts oversight of the banking industry, its regulators and programs such as last year's massive bank bailout.

In the end, there were no arrests. There was some finger-pointing and excited shouting, but that was the limit of the drama at a protest Wednesday outside U.S. Rep.

Two senators have reintroduced legislation that would provide tax breaks to those with non-qualified lifetime annuities.

Family files suit over death in head-on collision The relatives of a Brooksville woman who died from injuries sustained in a July 2008 head-on collision filed a civil lawsuit Friday.

As the so-call "cash for clunkers" bill awaits passage in the Senate, two local dealerships endorsed the idea of trading in an old car for a credit on a new one.

T oday, we start with political debates over war funding and Barack Obama's birth certificate and somehow end up talking about beautiful people, the zoo and an NBA Finals flashback.

Published: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 7:22 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 7:22 p.m. WASHINGTON Congress approved a "cash for clunkers" program Thursday to provide government incentives of $3,500 to $4,500 to motorists who trade in their gas guzzlers for more fuel efficient vehicles after Senate Democrats narrowly defeated a ...

By the time the Sebring High School class of 2010 graduates, Dave Travers hopes the Highlands County Fairgrounds arena will be ready.

Members of the Florida GOP Congressional Delegation have endorsed Attorney General Bill McCollum to be Florida's next Governor, the campaign announced June 16th.

Published: Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 11:25 p.m. Congress apparently believes it's time to hold the nation's money managers accountable, and North Central Florida lawmakers agree.

Natalie and Adam Gillespie are on a mission to raise $30,000 by July. Their goal: To adopt twin 4-year-old girls from China, one of whom is crippled and developmentally delayed with cerebral palsy.

The findings of a new report released today indicate that the decline in the stock market in the last six months of 2008 dramatically worsened the retirement outlook for middle-class Americans.