Kendrick Meek News Archives

With the opinion polls tightening in the U.S. Senate election a year from now, there are legitimate questions surrounding each of Florida's major candidates: Gov.

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the troops, both military and the Democratic party faithful, during a trip to Florida.

Most every time you read about the U.S. Senate race, it's all about the fiery primary between Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist .

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has endorsed U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek for the U.S. Senate. Nelson joined Florida's Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and fromer Senator Bob Graham as statewide elected leaders supporting Meek's campaign.

A recent string of bad press is haunting Governor Charlie Crist and could hurt his chances at the U.S. Senate.

Last year, the good people of Orlando, Florida, elected Democrat Alan Grayson to serve them in Congress.

President Obama is in Florida October 26th to raise money for U.S. senate races, but how much of it will be spent here remains to be seen.

The fashion industry might be coming to Washington D.C., and this time, not only to Michelle Obama's wardrobe.

President Barack Obama will use Florida as a backdrop Tuesday to announce plans for a $3.4-billion new "smart grid" that would deliver renewable energy across the state and country, White House officials said.

PETERSBURG, Fla.-- --Jabil Circuit, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has approved payment of a quarterly dividend to shareholders of record as of November... ARLINGTON, Va.-- --The Consumer Electronics Association applauds Representative Kendrick Meek for his decision this week to withdraw support from the Michaud Bill, wh...

Just six months ago, Gov. Charlie Crist seemed invincible. He was sitting on stratospheric job approval ratings, at least 68 percent.

When dozens of South Florida Haitian leaders huddled earlier this month around a monument in Savannah meant to immortalize Haitian revolutionaries, they noticed that the faces on a pair of statues looked oddly familiar.

The Consumer Electronics Association applauds Representative Kendrick Meek for his decision this week to withdraw support from the Michaud Bill, which seeks an overhaul of existing trade agreements.

Outside of the state of New Jersey , it is a pretty quiet day on the campaign trail.

President Barack Obama will make his second trip to Florida as president next week, but don't expect Gov.

Five Florida members of Congress are pushing a bill that would kill Medicare's new program requiring competitive bidding for suppliers of medical equipment in nine metro areas across the country, including South Florida and greater Orlando.

To the many warning signs Democrats face in the 2010 midterm elections, add this: New fundraising reports show Republicans outraised Democrats in the third quarter in all eight open Senate races on next fall's ballot.

The leader who prods his critics to put politics aside is doing anything but these days: President Barack Obama is campaigning for his party's future.

Democratic congresswoman Corrine Brown has decided not to challenge Kendrick Meek and potentially other Democrats for the party'snomination in next year'sU.S. Senate race.

The St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald teamed up for an article in yesterday's editions that voiced concerns among Democrats that their leading senatorial candidate, Congressman Kendrick Meek, isn't "high-profile" enough to beat Charlie Crist.

The searing hot South Florida sun did not deter the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan from visiting the city of Miami Gardens with Congressman Kendrick Meek on Tuesday .

Unemployment numbers have been released for Florida, and officials say they are up 4.3 percent from last year.

A dozen airmen, who are on a march to honor fallen teammates, made their way through Navarre this morning.

Published: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 11:48 p.m. Florida's clout in Washington suffered another blow on Wednesday when U.S. Rep.

Floridaa s clout suffered yet another blow today when U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, announced he will leave Congress in January.

The Citizens Against Government Waste's name pretty much says it all. The fiscally conservative think tank hates pork and government waste, which apparently includes programs such as expanding health care to kids in low-income families, providing low-interest loans to college students, and requiring insurance companies to cover mental health ...

This will be a fairly quick edition of the Wrap, as the combination of my eight year-old son's soccer practice and the absence of my beloved laptop , has rendered me temporally and technologically weakened.

Democrats looking for a front-runner in the first debate of the Florida attorney general's race saw two polished politicians take light digs at each other Sunday while seeking a unified front against the Republican Party.

Florida Democratic activists rallied Saturday feeling more confident than they've felt in years of their chances of winning the governor's mansion with Alex Sink.

LAKE BUENA VISTA - From the governor of Maine to the new superstar of Florida's congressional election, Democratic Party leaders optimistically told grass-roots activists Saturday they can capitalize on hard-line conservative attacks on President Obama.

That had to be the overwhelming feeling among Americans as they awoke to the news early this morning that Barack Obama is this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize .A It came in at 5 a.m. East Coast time this morning, and I literally jumped up and off my bed hearing the NPR announcer say at 5:04, "Repeating our top story, Barack Obama has won the ...

U.S. Rep. Kendrick B. Meek issued the following statement regarding the H1N1 flu and relevant resources to help keep constituents healthy and to prevent the flu from spreading throughout Florida: 'As both the seasonal flu and the H1N1 flu continue to spread throughout Florida and specifically the 17th Congressional District, I would like to remind ...

The war in Afghanistan has been one of the most vexing issues facing President Barack Obama and Democrats, and the division over what to do was summed up Wednesday by U.S. Rep.

If you asked us a few months ago which Mayor of Miami would be making a Senate run we would have guessed Manny Diaz, with out much hesitation.

Former President Bill Clinton is fast becoming Florida Senate candidate Kendrick Meek's biggest asset -- literally -- on the campaign trail.

A half-dozen students from the University of Central Florida strolled in with petitions to The Shores Resort & Spa on Sunday night where U.S. Rep.

Lolita Miller asks Rep. Kendrick Meek a question during a health care town hall meeting he held earlier this month in Hallandale, Fla.

Share + Oct 2, 2009 12:06 pm US/Eastern The former Miami Mayor who last won a local election in 1993 is running again and is setting his sights on a higher office.

President Barack Obama is coming to Miami later this month and he wants to see you and your wallet.