Bill Young News

Not many junior Naval ROTC participants can lay claim to being on first name terms with the secretary of the U.S. Navy like 17-year-old Billy Young can.

THURSDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers.

As we reach mid-week, we get some interesting Senate numbers out of Utah, but aside from that, it is a pretty quiet day, on balance.

Eric Forcade, a tea party candidate challenging Rep. Bill Young Glenn Beck, who has waged a conspiratorial, hateful campaign against liberals and his other political enemies all year, has been galvanizing his supporters to run for office .

This feature -- including convenient Web links to useful information -- is a concise monthly update of some of the things ARRL is doing on behalf of its members.

All Children's Hospital opens its doors to nearly 3,000 people during an one-day open house on Nov.

Wrong season perhaps, but Florida Governor Charlie Crist is mired in a slump. He just can't buy a hit.

A Congress increasingly skeptical about President Bush's strategy in Iraq is set to scrutinize his request for $87 billion in emergency money to fund the U.S. effort there and in Afghanistan, but it is expected to approve the funds overwhelmingly.

After picking up a key endorsement Monday that could pump big money into his campaign, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio set to work on another win that would deliver a big, symbolic blow to Charlie Crist in the governor's home county.

Things can move slowly in Washington, D.C. - slower than it takes to widen an interstate highway.

Sileo sidelined, Nelson & Bilirakis targeted on health care, and Bob Butterworth working for FPL?: Mitch Perry Report 10.30.2009 October 30, 2009 at 10:29 am by Mitch Perry The House Democrats dropped a bomb on D.C. yesterday - 1900 pages of health reform legislation that Republicans hate and even some progressive Democrats aren't pleased with.A ...

Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton, is among seven members of the House defense appropriations subcommittee under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, the Washington Post reports.

The document adds the names of Norm Dicks , D-Wash.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; ranking subcommittee Republican C.W. Bill Young of Florida and Todd Tiahrt , R-Kan . That list is only about 520 members short.

The Washington Post is reporting that Rep. Todd Tiahrt and six other members of the Appropriations subcommittee on defense are under investigation for directing federal funds to clients of influential lobby group.

Seven members of a powerful subcommittee that was the subject of a recent Center investigation are now being scrutinized by the House ethics committee, according to The Washington Post .

Contributors The Blog for Friday, October 30, 2009 Young under ethics investigation "About half the members of the House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under investigation by the House ethics committee and the Office of Congressional Ethics, a new investigative arm of Congress, for possibly accepting contributions or other items ...

All three network morning shows on Friday skipped a Washington Post reportA revealing that powerful congressional Democrats such as John Murtha, James Moran and others on a defense panel are the subject of an ethics investigation for a relationship with a lobbying firm.

Seven members of the powerful House panel that handles the Pentagon's purse - and the lucrative earmarks inside - have been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, according to an internal ethics committee document obtained by The Washington Post.

The investigations by two separate ethics offices include an examination of the powerful subcommittee chairman, John P. Murtha , as well as others who helped the PMA Group secure earmarks for clients.

A spokesman for Pinellas area Congressman C.W. Bill Young is denying a recent report that the longtimeA GOP Representative will not run for re-election in 2010.