Lincoln Diaz-Balart News

As Senate Democrats vow to push through a health care reform bill with or without Republican support, a Republican senator who will be voting on the bill visited South Florida Tuesday.

Share + Nov 20, 2009 12:07 am US/Eastern MIAMI A CBS4 I-Team investigation into your money discovered dozens of questionable ways your tax dollars are being spent as part of the US government's Stimulus package.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart gave a speech. His subject was the persecution of Cuban democrats, and the general ignoring of this persecution by the American press.

Cuba's Raul Castro has kept the system his brother Fidel used to repress critics, refusing to free scores of people imprisoned years ago and jailing others for "dangerousness," Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Wednesday.

A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death." But Martha Beatriz Roque's condition and the extent of her fast were not clear until the 64-year-old appeared ...

Havana, Nov 17 About $11 million have been paid to US lawmakers, including republicans and democrats, to support the aggressive policy against Cuba in their country''s Congress, Granma newspaper reported Tuesday.

Published: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 2:07 a.m. Re-canvassed votes in upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District foreshadow the second coming of third-party candidate Doug Hoffman.

By Susan Cornwell Anti-Castro Cuban-Americans are donating more money to Democratic lawmakers in hopes of blunting momentum in Congress to lift the US trade embargo of the Communist-ruled Caribbean nation, a report said on Monday.

Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years, according to a study released late Sunday night by a group supporting campaign finance reform.

TPM Reader MT points out that the only Republican to vote for the Dems' health care reform bill is also one of, I believe, only two in the House GOP caucus with any actual experience living in a Communist country, as opposed to the fantasy-Tea Bag version of Communism / Socialism / Fascism / Dictatorshipism.

House lawmakers narrowly served up a $1.2 trillion overhaul of U.S. health care reform over the weekend.

The measure passed in the House 220-215. Sunday, November 8, 2009 The House has acted.

At a rally in Fort Myers on Feb. 10, Gov. Charlie Crist touted the stimulus bill with President Barack Obama.

From left: Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Ander Crenshaw, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ginny Brown-Waite and Cliff Stearns [Illustrations: Rob Zammarchi] In 2007, after a scandal involving Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff revealed how lobbyists were using lavish trips to curry favor and buy face time with lawmakers, Congress enacted stricter rules governing ...

Share + Nov 1, 2009 9:36 pm US/Eastern He is a giant of American history and his voice came alive once again Sunday at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center.

Republican Rep. Charles Dent of Pennsylvania says it's time to install cameras in the meeting room of the House Rules Committee, but Sacramento Democratic Rep.

Who are the the DIABLOs ? Who are the RINOs ? Unfortunately, the American Conservative Union's rankings are pretty useless.

The Progressive Caucus whip count continues in the House. While all of the actual caucus signed on long ago, it's still necessary to get to 218.

Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz-Balart, traveled to Honduras two weeks ago. 15.10.09 - Updated: 15.10.09 05:19 pm - Writing: redaccion@elheraldo.hn United States .

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 ...