democrats.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
How They'll Try to Bury Impeachment and Fail By David Swanson In response to public demand for impeachment hearings and pressure from Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Congressman Robert Wexler, and others, as well as electoral challenges by pro-impeachment candidates, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally caved and proposed to allow Kucinich to present impeachment in a Judiciary Committee hearing. The hearing...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Robert Wexler is calling for a congressional investigation into State Farm, the state's largest private property insurer, following its request to boost policy rates an average of 47 percent. "These requested rate hikes are unacceptable and are not consistent with...
Florida Progressive Coalition Blog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
For most Americans (and Floridians), members of Congress are these distant things that aren’t human and don’t connect to regular human beings. They don’t have lives and they don’t have emotions. Sometimes these feelings are true. And then you have the Robert Wexler’s of the world. In his new book Fire-Breathing Liberal: How [...]
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Any rational Jew that votes Democrat these days is lost. It signals an irretrievably broken mind. Look at the Florida race. The differences could not be plainer. And yet self loathing Jews lead the pack .... huh? When will the Jewish lay leadership stop acting like the damn Judenraete of Germany and start actively advocating and campaigning for great Americans - lovers of Israel, America and the those...
Make a Difference (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
This just in from Robert Wexler D-Fla . It seems that several items are creating a reason to hear Articles drafted by Dennis Kucinich from Cleveland. They are as follows: • Karl Rove once again thumbed his nose at Congress and the American people by brazenly ignoring a lawful congressional subpoena to testify before the House of Representatives; • Judiciary Chairman John Conyers indicated his willingness...
Florida Progressive Coalition Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Reacting, somewhat, to the concerns of the Mark Weaver Show, its audience and others, Robert Wexler on Wednesday called on Congress to change the language in H.Con.Res. 362, of which he was an early cosponsor. Wexler’s statement appears below. The Mark Weaver Show issued the following statement: “While we applaud Rep. Wexler’s reflective abilities, and [...]
Iran Nuclear Watch (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
While some Members of Congress, like Representatives Robert Wexler (D-FL) , Barney Frank (D-MA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and others, are expressing regrets on H.Con.Res. 362, Rep. Gary Ackerman continues to make the case for his controversial resolution. Today Rep. Ackerman circulated a new "Dear Colleague" letter based largely on his comments to the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday....
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Filed under: Late Night , TV Royalty , Programming , Celebrities , Talk Show , Reality-Free Here's who's on the late night shows tonight. Charlie Rose: Ted Koppel and Jim Courier The Daily Show: James McAvoy (repeat) The Colbert Report: Representative Robert Wexler (repeat) The Late Show with David Letterman: Harrison Ford, Ali Lohan, and Leona Lewis (repeat) Jay Leno: Jarod Miller and Sara Bareilles...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
By Congressman Robert Wexler Over the past several weeks, there has been a growing debate in Congress, the blogosphere and throughout the media about a controversial non-binding resolution (House Concurrent Resolution 362), which expresses the sense of Congress regarding the threat Iran's nuclear pursuit poses to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests...
Iran Nuclear Watch (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Today, Representative Robert Wexler (D-FL) called on Congress to change the language in H.Con.Res. 362 because of concerns expressed by Americans across the country. According to Rep. Wexler , "It is clear that despite carefully worded language in H. Con. Res. 362 that 'nothing in this resolution should be construed as an authorization of the use of force against Iran' that many Americans across the...
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
...Rep. Robert Wexler: The Democratic Party is unifying much quicker than most people, I think, even thought that we would. In fact, I think the Republican Party is having a much more difficult time unifying around John McCain...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
From Hotline's "Friday Feature: Betsy Rothstein , Capital Living Editor of The Hill, has been bothering press secs. for the past nine years. Before joining The Hill in '98, Rothstein was the press sec. for Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL). She worked as a reporter and features editor for Spanish weekly newspapers in Boston and Denver, and covered business and politics for the Boca Raton News in Boca Raton,...
Florida Progressive Coalition Blog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Here’s a real challenge for you, if you want to stop the U.S. from going to war with Iran, you need to MEET with these Florida Democratic CO-SPONSORS of 362 and beg them to rescind their cosponsorship: Firebreathing Neoconservatives Robert Wexler, Ron Klein, Debbie Schultz, Alcee Hastings, Kendrick Meek, Tim Mahoney and Allen Boyd. I [...]
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Public Policy Polling (6/26-29, likely voters): Alex Sink (D) : 37 Mel Martinez (R-inc) : 31 Robert Wexler (D) : 33 Mel Martinez (R-inc) : 33 (MoE: ±3.6%) Floridians really seem to dislike Mel Martinez. His approval rating is a dismal 23%, with 43% disapproving of his antics in Congress. This one is shaping up to be a major pick-up opportunity on the horizon, especially if we can get a top-tier recruit...
News From Underground (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
So where's Ron Paul? From: Sharron W. Hope this will be helpful for those of you who are contacting Congress... NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT NETWORK ACTION ALERT RE KEY REPS June 30, 2008 The first list combines the cosponsors of H. Res. 333/799, cosponsors of H. Res. 1258, and signers of Robert Wexler's letter to John Conyers asking for immediate hearings for Cheney. After each name is "333", "1258", or "W"...
