Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Washington, D.C.: Aid proposed for storm study

2009-01-09 00:00:00

U.S. Reps. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Miramar, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, introduced a bill Thursday to authorize $2.35 billion to improve hurricane research. The funding, which would be provided under National Hurricane Research Initiative Act of 2009,...

Bill introduced asking for $2.35 billion to improve hurricane research

2009-01-08 12:00:00

U.S. Representatives Alcee L. Hastings, D-Miramar, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, today introduced a bill authorizing $2.35 billion to improve hurricane research. The funding would help scientists better understand how hurricanes form and intensify....

Freaky Florida: This was 2008

2008-12-30 00:00:00

The past year in Florida saw deputies Taser an emu, iguanas fall from trees and a Christmas tree used as a weapon. What else would you expect in a state where a longtime congresswoman hung up on President-elect Barack Obama not once, but twice? In a year...

Para servir mejor al inmigrante

2008-12-20 00:00:00

A partir de esta semana cuatro im�genes de la estatua de la Libertad dan la bienvenida a los inmigrantes que visitan las nuevas oficinas del Servicio de Inmigraci�n y Ciudadan�a (USCIS) en el sur de la Florida. Los cuatro nuevos edificios, ubicados en...

Florida Democrats' technology closes gap with GOP

2008-12-21 00:00:00

Florida Democrats rehired Karen Thurman on Saturday to serve a second four-year term as chairwoman of the state party in Orlando. But the star of the party's business get-together this weekend at the International Plaza Resort may have been a database...

Rep. Ros-Lehtinen hangs up on president-elect

2008-12-05 00:00:00

When president-elect Barack Obama called Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen at her South Florida district office Wednesday, she hung up on him. "I thought: 'Why would Obama want to call a little slug on the planet like me?'" Ros-Lehtinen said. A short time later,...

U.S., Arab Emirates forge friendly nuke deal

2008-12-15 15:32:00

The United States and the United Arab Emirates have hammered out a nuclear-cooperation deal that would bring U.S. atomic technology and know-how to a site less than 100 miles off Iran's shores, an envoy from the Persian Gulf monarchy told state media on...

47 DAYS TO INAUGURATION

2008-12-04 00:00:00

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is expected to give up a $4,700 pay raise given the secretary of state in January to get around a Constitutional ban on senators and representatives taking federal jobs whose pay was increased when they were in...

Obama and the doubting lawmaker

2008-12-05 16:24:12

by Frank James At a time when we're desperately searching for things to laugh about, especially with the economy swooning, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has given us something to smile about. Who could not like the story about her repeated......

The other contender

2008-10-22 00:00:00

Pinecrest, a tiny enclave in the great sprawl of Miami, offers the sort of Old Florida living that only comes to Miamians with large bank accounts these days. Annette Taddeo — now in the final days of a campaign to unseat Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of...

Supporters of closer Cuba ties see a chance with Obama's win

2008-11-10 00:00:00

Bernardo Benes is plotting to reprise his role as broker of the one humanitarian breakthrough in U.S.-Cuban relations in the 50 years since Fidel Castro's revolution came to power. Benes, who negotiated the 1978 release of 3,600 political prisoners and...

N. Korea agrees to nuke inspection deal

2008-10-11 09:59:00

North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands, and the Bush administration responded Saturday by removing the communist country from a terrorism blacklist. The breakthrough is intended to salvage a faltering disarmament accord before...

Ileana Ros- Lehtinen, R-Fla

2008-12-04 00:00:00

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , R-Fla., talks during an interview with a local television news in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 file photo.

2008-12-04 00:00:00

Miami's Cuban-American community embraced little Elian as their own. He was an honored guest at the community's annual Three Kings Day parade in January. Cuban-American politicians, who also understood Elian's significance, made sure they took up the cause to keep him in the United States.

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