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Only a fraction of the results are available on the state Division of Elections Web site, but eight-term U.S. Rep.

Hendry Primary Election Results In LABELLE, FL. -- With 27 percent of the registered voters casting votes today, the preliminary results have been tabulated by the Hendry County Supervisor of Elections office.

One of today's listed speakers was Silvestre Reyes, the Texas congressman who was Speaker Nancy Pelosi's handpicked choice to lead the House Intelligence Committee, is due to address the convention shortly.

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Published: Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:09 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 9:12 a.m. WASHINGTON Gov.

Until recently, offshore oil drilling was the lethal third rail of Florida politics, opposed with near unanimity by elected Democrats and Republicans throughout the state.

Facing mounting criticism over its drift away from democratization, Kazakhstan aggressively defended its record at a recent US Congressional hearing.

Rep. Hastings on Guantanamo visit: I got there early and 'they were still whitewashing the walls.' >> Yesterday, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe held a hearing regarding the future of the ...

U.S. Representative Alcee L. Hastings: "I will be the last man standing, saying you will not drill off the coast of Florida" by David Goldenberg Westside Gazette Originally posted 7/16/2008 Hastings speaks out ...

Chairman Alcee Hastings talks about the Guantanamo Bay prison. Hastings says that there has not been a single completed trial of those suspected of the most serious crimes committed against our country, ...

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley has been gone from Congress nearly two years, but his old campaign account still has almost $1.2 million, a new report says.

A bill averting a 10.6 percent Medicare pay cut for doctors but no increases in premiums emerged intact despite a presidential veto Tuesday.

Another hurricane has confounded the experts. How long will Florida and other states in the storms' path have to wait until Congress gives the experts more help? Hurricane Bertha blew up unexpectedly to a ...

U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, takes to the House floor on Thursday to decry oil industry profits and rail against the idea of offshore drilling.

The 2010 OSCE chair seems to be retreating from commitments to foster democracy at home.

DeKalb County Commissioner Burrell Ellis of DeKalb County was in Washington, D.C. last month leading the National Association of Counties' Large Urban County Caucus to secure support of legislation which could ...

The delegation, in Astana for the OSCE's annual Parliamentary Assembly session, said Kazakhstan has not kept its promise to push through democratic reforms as a precondition for taking over the chairmanship of ...

The U.S. would spend more than $4 billion on hurricane research over the next decade if Congress approves a new bill aimed at improving weather forecasts.

U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, says President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney deserve to be impeached for what they've done to the nation. But he voted against an impeachment resolution because it's not a fight worth pursuing with just seven months left in Bush's term.

'Bush and Cheney should not only be impeached, they ought to be jailed for what they did to this nation,' Hastings said. 'I feel there are high crimes and misdemeanors committed by the president of the United States.'

Today's Chutzpah Award goes to South Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings . He says in today's Sun-Sentinel that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney should be impeached, adding that they "should not only be impeached, ...