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Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) says that over 4 million Florida residents will die if Medicaid is not expanded there. “In fact, we’ve got over 4 million people that need medical expansion of health care that we are sending back, that’s going to die because they’re not getting the quality health care that they need,” Brown said during Wednesday night’s Veteran’s Affairs Committee hearing. Brown was being critical of Gov. Rick Scott’s (R-Fla.) move to sue the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs for not allowing state hospital officials to inspect federal medical care facilities. …

<p>IF YOU ENJOYED the election crisis of 2000, you’re going to love what Democrat leaders are cooking up for November.</p> <p>"George Soros has purchased the Democratic Party," charges Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson. (2) Some might dismiss Miss Iverson's comment as hyberbole. However, Soros' massive soft-money contributions have indisputably given him power over Democrat strategy.</p>

Screechingly dull. A monumental waste of time. Am I talking about the Democrat Convention in Boston last week? No. I’m talking about my assignment, which I willingly accepted last week, to listen to each and every speech, no matter how dreadful or how obscure the speaker, at that Convention. I did this to be prepared for a live radio summary at 5:30 every day with my friend, Jerry Agar. (He’s a good guy. He talked me into it. He rides 50,000 watts on WPTF, out of Raleigh, NC, in afternoon drive time. The piece was called the “Fahrenheit Follies of...

U.S. Rep. Peter Deutsch picked up the endorsement of a key black member of Congress and the state Democratic Party's highest-ranking woman Monday in the race to succeed Florida Sen. Bob Graham. Deutsch, of Pembroke Pines, received the backing of U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown during a stop in her Jacksonville area district. Brown was among the first black members elected to Congress from Florida since the post-Civil War era and could help Deutsch court black voters in the August 2004 primary. Deutsch told reporters that Brown's endorsement was "a real serious statement in terms of what I expect to happen...