RICK SCOTT

In the final days of jury selection in the Parkland school shooter case, things get heated.

South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial nominee Joe Cunningham is proposing an age limit — 72 — for state politicians.

Republican Sen_ Rick Scott of Florida is criticizing the Texas GOP's new party platform for not being “inclusive” when it described homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice.”.

Two Florida Republican senators made a joint appearance in Doral. It was a good opportunity to ask them a few questions.

Angered by the unrelenting toll from gun violence, tens of thousands of people are expected at rallies this weekend in the nation’s capital and around the United States demanding that Congress pass meaningful changes to gun laws.

Republican South Florida politicians react to Radio Mambí sale, saying they fear a source of conservative voices could be lost.

The mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, are again putting the focus on gun control measures such as waiting periods to buy firearms.

The gunmen in two of the nation’s most recent mass shootings legally bought the semi-automatic rifles they used in their massacres after they turned 18.

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In 2018, Florida banned weapons sales to those under 21, imposed a three-day waiting period and created a “red flag” law. Republicans doubt the same can happen at the federal level.

Marco Rubio and Rick Scott are not part of the bipartisan team trying to work on gun-reform legislation.

It's been four years since the school shooting in tragedy, so what's Florida doing to keep kids safer in school?

Senate GOP blocks domestic terrorism bill, gun policy debate.

The longtime Trump adviser says Trump lost so that she can say the race was winnable. Then she echoes the party line on how the election was "rigged."

On this "Face the Nation" broadcast, Sen. Rick Scott and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries join Margaret Brennan.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg speak to Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Senator Rick Scott and state Rep. Tom Fabricio.

The war of words ramped up last week between President Joe Biden and Florida Senator Rick Scott.

The following is a transcript of an interview with GOP Sen. Rick Scott of Florida that aired Sunday, May 22, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

Former United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Senator Rick Scott and more appear on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" this Sunday.

The president says that slowing the rise in prices is his top priority, but he’s not running his administration that way.

The White House keeps doubling down on the false claim that there is brosd support among the GOP to raise middle-class taxes.

Biden and Sen. Scott have been blasting each other to bolster their political positions. This week, the feud turned ugly, as Scott accused Biden of incompetence and the president said Scott "has a problem."

Biden said he could "taste" the country's dissatisfaction, particularly over rising prices, but he sought to channel the anger against the GOP.

During his address on Tuesday President Joe Biden said Sen. Rick Scott was from Wisconsin. This prompted Scott to launch an attack on the president accusing him of being unfit for office.

President Joe Biden is warning voters unhappy with soaring inflation and his stalled domestic agenda against turning power over to “ultra-MAGA” Republicans in the midterm elections.

In an address from the White House Tuesday, President Biden contrasted his administration's plans to tackle rising costs with what he called Republicans' "ultra-MAGA" plan.

Biden is trying to link the entire GOP with Scott's tax plan, which would increase taxes on the poorest Americans in the name of "skin in the game."

President Biden plans to lash out at Republicans as more bad economic news looms

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) each earn Four Pinocchios for claims they made in recent days about abortion laws.

By A.G. GancarskiAlmost 60% of it is graduate school debt.’President Joe Biden continues to mull some form of student loan forgiveness. “This student debt that’s out there, almost 60% of it is graduate school debt. “I am not considering $50,000 debt reduction but I am in the process of taking a hard look on whether or not there will be additional debt forgiveness. However, any policy announcement will be razzed by Florida Republicans, who, like DeSantis, say loan forgiveness fails the equity test. Sen. Rick Scott, the richest member of the U.S. Senate, suggested this week a move to forgive or cancel student loan debt would disadvantage people who “paid their way through school” as he did.

Top GOP lawmakers emphasized the unprecedented nature of the unauthorized disclosure of the high court's draft ruling on an abortion case instead of the possible impact on women or on the midterms.

Florida Supreme Court Justice Alan Lawson announced plans to retire Friday, which gives Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the opportunity to have appointed four of the seven justices.

The White House has taken an idea proposed by one GOP senator, embraced by no other Republicans, and twisted it into a new policy push to raise taxes on middle-class Americans.

The return of the White House Easter Egg Roll after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic will provide President Biden with a respite from other issues he faces.

With an aggressive fundraising effort and a controversial policy plan, the Florida senator has been upsetting colleagues. He’s okay with that.

McConnell wants his party’s candidates to avoid discussing specific policies. That may make electoral sense, but it can backfire, as his spat with Senator Rick Scott shows.

The plan was to open the time capsule to mark Key West’s tricentennial, but "nobody remembers where it is,” said Alex Vega.

Mike Gibbons, a leading Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, said at a media event last fall that middle-class Americans don’t pay “any kind of a fair share” of income taxes.

“The top 20% of earners in the United States pay 82% of federal income tax — and, if you do the math, and 45% to 50% don’t pay any income tax, you can see the middle class is not really paying any kind of a fair share, depending on how you want to define it,” Gibbons said.

When Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, a 51-year-old mother of two who grew up in Miami will make history as the first Supreme Court justice from Florida and the first Black woman.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott is barely halfway through his first term, but he's already leaning into a fight against his own party’s leadership.

Rick Scott likes to think of himself as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. Barely halfway through his first Senate term, the Florida Republican is already leaning into a fight against his own party's leadership as he navigates a delicate alliance with former President Donald Trump and pushes a handcrafted policy agenda that many Republicans reject. The 69-year-old former businessman likens his situation to that of Grant during the battle of Vicksburg, when the general ordered multiple bloody assaults on the Southern stronghold before delivering a victory that helped turn the war in the Union's favor.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell speaks to Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe about the mounting pressure that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is facing after text messages his wife sent in the lead-up to the January 6th Capitol riot were made public.

More than half of Americans paid no federal income tax last year due to Covid-relief funds, tax credits and stimulus, according to a new report.

"We got to make this system where we don't need a big IRS," Florida Republican Rick Scott told Insider in a brief interview.

Here is how senators Marco Rubio, R-FL, and Rick Scott, R-FL, voted in Congress in February.

Venezuela has long been one of America's most bitter adversaries. But amid the crisis with Russia and soaring gas prices, the Biden administration is reaching out to the Latin American country.

Newspaper editorial on Florida Sen. Rick Scott's "rescue plan" shows paper isn't paying attention to Republican Party politics

The centre of Kyiv is deserted, with the soundtrack of the approaching war audible in the distance. But John and Natasha, an American couple who refuse to leave Ukraine, go out quietly to walk their dogs, accepting that it may be their "destiny to die" rather than leave Ukraine.

Scott argued that Republicans "don't deserve to govern" if they don't offer their own agenda, continuing his clash with Mitch McConnell.

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are delivering remarks on the Building a Better America plan on Wednesday.

It was diplomatic from McConnell. But it was still brutal.

“If we’re fortunate enough to have the majority next year, I’ll be the majority leader," McConnell said Tuesday as he rejected fellow Republican Sen. Rick Scott's agenda that calls for all Americans to pay some form of income tax.

"I'll be the majority leader," declared McConnell as Scott walked away. "That will not be part of a Republican Senate majority agenda."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) later defended attending the conference organized by Nick Fuentes, saying she didn't know he has promoted white nationalist ideas.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg speak to Sen. Rick Scott, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo and Miami attorney Loreal Arscott.

Sen. Rick Scott was in South Florida last week and denounced the Russian invasion, but his major focus was on promoting what he calls his 11-point plan to rescue America.

The party has learned to play down the details of the conservative economic agenda, but it hasn’t truly abandoned it.

Sen. Rick Scott delivered a speech during the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday in Orlando saying Republicans should not be “timid” during the midterm elections in November.

Sen. Rick Scott met with a group of businessmen, executives, and civic activists to present his 11-point plan “to rescue America” on Friday in Miami-Dade County.

Ten years ago when Trayvon Martin was fatally shot, Florida was one of the few states with “stand your ground” laws that eased use of deadly force in the face of danger.

Some lawmakers worry that pushing future post office retirees' health costs to Medicare could hurt the health program's outlook.

Trayvon Martin was visiting his father in Sanford, Florida, when the 17-year-old Black teen was fatally shot Feb. 26, 2012, during a confrontation with George Zimmerman.

Senate Democrats plan to run ads seizing on Republican plan calling for more Americans to pay taxes.

Senate Democrats plan to run ads seizing on Republican plan calling for more Americans to pay taxes.

Rick Scott has done exactly what Mitch McConnell was trying to avoid.

The GOP has steadfastly avoided putting forward a new agenda. But Scott has now taken a shot -- and wound up pitching a tax hike for half the country.

Former President Trump is no fan of McConnell and recently said the Senate minority leader "does not speak for the Republican Party."

Two widely supported bills are encountering delays in the Senate.

There's no doubt Senate approval is inevitable, sooner rather than later. One measure would relieve much of the financially strapped Postal Service’s huge debt. T he other would avoid a government shutdown this weekend.

A Message From The PublisherBy Bobby R. Henry, Sr.We ring the bell for freedom, democracy, and majority rule. Rubio and Scott refuse to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. DeSantis, Scott, and Rubio White American dictatorship, not majority rule. Scott, Rubio, and DeSantis must be confronted everywhere and held accountable to all the people. Governor DeSantis, Senators Rubio are running for re-election on Tuesday November 8.

Rubio and Scott refuse to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. DeSantis, Scott, and Rubio want a White American dictatorship, not majority rule. Scott, Rubio, and DeSantis must be confronted everywhere and held accountable to all the people. We call on Floridians of all races and creeds to organize and challenge DeSantis, Marco Rubio, and Rick Scott. Governor DeSantis, Senators Rubio are running for re-election on Tuesday November 8.

President Biden endorsed changes to the filibuster, so that Democrats would be able to pass voting rights legislation.

Because of redistricting, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 seats in the U.S. Senate are back up for grabs.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other leading Republicans are intensifying a personal late-stage push to persuade Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to run for the Senate.

President Joe Biden’s pick to run the nation’s highway safety agency is pledging to attack a crisis of fatal car crashes by implementing safety rules to deter impaired driving.

Scott tweeted about his hang-up by the Biden administration, blasting the White House for their “shameful cowardice” in not connecting the U.S. senator with the president on the human rights issue.

Flush with federal cash from stimulus programs and a robust economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled his budget recommendations Thursday, a $99.7 billion plan that includes a $1 billion gas tax holiday, salary increases for teachers and law enforcement, and more money for K-12 schools, environmental projects and cancer research.

Senator Rick Scott, in Miami to mark Versailles Restaurant’s 50th anniversary, served up scathing criticism of the bill Tuesday.

With Republicans in contention to win back the House and Senate, many corporations and top lobbyists have resumed giving.

Critical race theory has become a lightning rod for Republicans and an issue in the Virginia governor's race.

Former President Donald Trump struggled during his first year in office to get his nominees confirmed in a timely fashion in the Senate.

A 2018 candidate for governor of Nevada says his enthusiastic pursuit of big contributions from a Rudy Giuliani associate he met at a Trump hotel ended with a $10,000 check he had to return.

A Florida judge has ruled the state cannot enforce its ban on mask mandates in public schools to guard against the coronavirus while an appeals court sorts out whether the ban is ultimately legal.

A group of Cuban-American protesters participated in a rally and a march to ask President Joe Biden to do more to help Cuba’s opposition to get rid of communism on the island on Monday in Washington, D.C.

Congressional bargainers say they’ve agreed to a bipartisan framework for overhauling policing procedures.

Sen. Rick Scott met privately with business owners on Friday in Miami-Dade County’s city of Doral.

Cheers erupted among lawmakers as new Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett won a crucial vote of confidence

This week, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., introduced the bill, H.R. 49, where it was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate, to establish the ‘National Pulse Memorial’.

Venezuelan and Haitian leaders stood together at a press conference to call for permanent protections for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders in light of a Supreme Court decision, Monday, which excluded some TPS holders from permanent residency.

The head of the Senate Republican political arm says he expects former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt to challenge Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada next year.

Republicans are fighting to seize control of Congress.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg are joined by Sen. Rick Scott, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, activist John Sowinski and Dr. Rosalind Osgood, Chair of the Broward County School Board.

Rick Scott wants to end extended unemployment, and President Joe Biden's jobs and infrastructure plan.

Before Matt Gaetz rose to national prominence as an ardent backer of Donald Trump, the now-Florida congressman carved out an unusual reputation as a Republican state lawmaker who wanted to liberalize marijuana laws.

The Senate has confirmed Bill Nelson, a former Florida senator who once flew on the space shuttle, to be the next NASA administrator.

The No. 2 House Republican says party leaders would “take action” against Rep. Matt Gaetz if the Justice Department formally moves ahead with legal action against him.

Florida’s two Republican senators are steering clear of voicing support for Rep. Matt Gaetz.

Former President Donald Trump is staking his claim to the Republican Party in a closed-door speech to donors Saturday night, casting his populist policies and attack-dog politics as the key to future Republican success.

President Joe Biden is eager to have both Democrats and Republicans sign off on the American Jobs Plan. South Florida’s representatives in Congress are deeply divided.