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		<title>The Delegation for 7.13.17 — Insights from the Beltway to the Sunshine State</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Schorsch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Russia issue not yet hurting GOP fundraising or giving Dems advantage The saga regarding Donald Trump — Senior and Junior — and Russia continues with no end in sight. It began in January and now, following the latest “bombshell,” the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice-president, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, is throwing out the word “treason.” To their credit, the Florida delegation is showing greater restraint. Weston Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz did call Donald, Jr. “a liar” and that his actions represent “the definition of collusion,” but the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Florida congressional members cross party lines on immigration bills</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Curbelo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Ross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gus Bilirakis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ileana Ros-Lehtinen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Diaz-Balart]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed two immigration-related bills Thursday afternoon. One was Kate&#8217;s Law, which mandates a minimum five-year prison sentence for anyone who re-enters the country illegally at least twice after being deported. It passed the House of Representatives on Thursday with a vote of 257 to 157. The No Sanctuary for Criminals Act passed by a 228-195 margin. Both votes were mostly along party lines, but not in Florida. Only seven Republicans voted against the No Sanctuary for&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Darryl Paulson: Midterm elections boost Democratic chances</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darryl Paulson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Mast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Curbelo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ileana Ros-Lehtinen]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Democrats are looking forward to the 2018 midterm election with great hopes of regaining political control of the House and Senate. Democrats would need to pick up 24 House seats and three Senate seats to capture the majority. Democrats hope to pick up anywhere between one and four seats in Florida with the seat of retiring Republic Ileana Ros-Lehtinen their top priority. Other Republican targets include Carlos Curbelo, Mario Diaz-Balart and Brian Mast. A three-seat switch would give Democrats majority&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cuba hardliners, U.S. defenders battle over new Donald Trump policy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cuba’s best friends in the U.S. used to be a smattering of Washington policy wonks and leftists who sent donated school buses and computers to the communist-led island. Five months into the Trump administration, Cuba has a new set of American defenders: a coalition of high-tech firms, farming interests, travel companies and young Cuban-Americans thrown into action by the looming announcement of a new Cuba policy. On the opposite side, hardline members of Miami’s Cuban exile community who suddenly have&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Darryl Paulson: Will 2018 bring no change or a political tsunami?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darryl Paulson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 12:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mario Diaz-Balart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[political change]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes political change comes slowly, one drop at a time. That was the 2016 Florida congressional election where Democrats gained a single seat, although the opportunities were everywhere. Sometimes elections result in a political tsunami, where the political landscape is fundamentally altered, and one party replaces the other party as the dominant political force. The 2010 and 2014 midterm elections created a tsunami where Republicans wiped out a substantial Democratic majority and won political control of the House. What will&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Universal support for Robert Mueller so far from Florida&#8217;s members of Congress</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Powers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 15:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Nelson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathy Castor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lois Frankel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mario Diaz-Balart]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Across the aisles and across the Sunshine State Florida&#8217;s members of Congress are universally praising the announcement that former FBI Director Robert Mueller will lead a special investigation into Russian interference in American elections. Some Democrats, while praising the appointment and Mueller&#8217;s integrity, still called for more, including the special commission that Democrats have been pushing for in a bill in the House of Representatives. They also almost universally expressed hope that Mueller will conduct a broad investigation that includes&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Partly in disbelief, Florida&#8217;s members of Congress denounce Donald Trump&#8217;s revelations to Russians</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Powers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2017 22:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alcee Hastings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darren Soto]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frederica Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ileana Ros-Lehtinen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Diaz-Balart]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A lot of Florida&#8217;s Democratic members of Congress are responding with stunned disbelief to news reports — and President Donald Trump&#8216;s Tuesday morning tweet — that he shared classified, highly sensitive ISIS information with Russian diplomats last week, calling the prospect inexcusable and demanding details. Republican U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Miami and Mario Diaz-Balart also denounced the events, while most other Republican members from Florida have yet to react Tuesday morning to Monday evenings&#8217; news, and Trump&#8217;s tweet essentially&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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