U.S. House of Representatives

The House Ethics Committee has found Democratic congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards.

The House Ethics Committee is holding a rare public hearing into alleged ethics violations by Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick. The hearing Thursday pushes into the open a yearslong investigation into how Florida Democrat has handled campaign finance funds.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Tampa ruled Tuesday the suit was filed too late, but it did give the plaintiffs a chance to amend and refile the challenge.

The U.S. House Ethics Committee says they have evidence of violations of government ethics and House rules by the Democratic South Florida Congresswoman.

After two decades in office, the 74-year-old Republican from Manatee County said he won't seek reelection this year and will step down when his term ends.

Florida's elected leaders are calling for unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. Many of their constituents don't want it, a poll finds.

As the U.S. House of Representatives debates President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill Act," a coalition of faith-based groups in Florida are making a last-minute plea to the state's Republican-dominated congressional delegation to vote against it because of the deep proposed federal funding cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of Trump-friendly congressional seats and carving into Republicans’ narrow 218 to 213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The primary in the special election to fill Matt Gaetz’s seat will be on Jan. 28, and the general election on April 1. Monday is the deadline for elected officials to submit resignations if they intend to run.

It included victories by several Republican incumbents in the Tampa Bay area.

Federal prosecutors say a South Florida man threatened to kill U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell and his children in a series of voicemails left at the California Democrat’s Washington office last month.

In two marquee races, Republican Neal Dunn defeated Democrat Al Lawson in a redrawn North Florida district, and Republican Anna Paulina Luna took the St. Pete-based district previously held by Charlie Crist.