Corrine Brown

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders may have sketched out a debt deal on Sunday, but that doesn't mean it'll be rubber-stamped by Congress — particularly in the House where fiscal hawks and liberal Democrats stand...

WASHINGTON — Like the rest of Congress, no one in the Florida delegation is overjoyed with the debt deal that emerged Sunday night from the White House and Capitol Hill. But grudging support appears to be building there and in the rest of the U.S....

By Anthony Man MIAMI – A federal judge ruled Friday that the voter-approved reform to the way Florida draws its congressional districts doesn't violate the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro issued her decision after hearing...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida NAACP, League of Women Voters and other groups defending new voter-approved redistricting standards are urging House Speaker Dean Cannon to drop out of the legal fight now that a federal judge has ruled against him....

I never like the smell of fire…but I especially don’t when it smells like the odor of our taxpayer money burning or legislators wasting valuable time in Tallahassee. Let’s call it the Legislature’s redistricting shenanigans…...

TALLAHASSEE — Despite public criticism over using tax dollars to fight a publicly supported redistricting reform, House Speaker Dean Cannon said Thursday the House will appeal a U.S. district judge's ruling upholding Amendment 6, which imposed new...

A bill aimed at combating Florida's pill-mill industry and the nation's prescription drug abuse problems was introduced in the House by a Sarasota congressman on Monday. "The Pill Mill Crackdown Act of 2011" has a host of provisions, including toughening...

My question seemed simple enough: Whose money was it? Sure, I knew the names of the politicians who opposed the fair-districting amendments, which we overwhelmingly approved at the polls earlier this month. I knew that Dean Cannon and Mike Haridopolos...

In a letter distributed by a civil-rights group, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has asked the U.S. Justice department to investigate a series of unorthodox licensing inspections of Orange County barbershops carried out by deputies and state licensing...

With early voting kicking off across Florida, Monday, gubernatorial nominees Alex Sink and Rick Scott both held get-out-the-vote rallies here. Sink's event was first, rallying supporters to early vote at the downtown Orlando Public Library.  Sink...

So, I return from vacation to find some e-mails featuring endorsements by two interest groups – Associated Industries of Florida and the Florida Consumer Action Network. AIF is a business group, and all of its endorsements were for Republicans. FCAN...

Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell wanted to do a little sleuthing into who was financing the lawsuit against the Amendment 6 congressional redistricting amendment filed by U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Corrine Brown. From Maxwell:  Voters deserve...