Fla. AG Wants to Review Federal Health Care Bill - ABC News Florida's attorney general said Tuesday that he is looking at possibly suing the federal government over concerns about proposed health care legislation moving through Congress. Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is running for governor in 2010, said he's particularly apprehensive about the constitutionality of a requirement in the federal bill that people pay a fine or tax if they don't obtain the required health insurance.

Tennessee ABC Leader Fired from N.Y. Project, Undocumented Workers Arrested Ernie Hartman, business manager of Elmira, N.Y., Local 139, had long advocated that Chemung County residents and others nearby should be given priority over out-of-state labor in local construction projects

The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill The question was simple: Should the lending practices of auto dealers be regulated? It was already October and the 42 Democrats and 29 Republicans on the House Committee on Financial Services had spent the better part of the year hashing out the details of a new federal agency dedicated to protecting consumers from dangerous and deceptive financial products

SunCruz parent files for bankruptcy - Orlando Business Journal: The parent of SunCruz Casinos, which has a ship based at Port Canaveral, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on Monday. SunCruz owes the Canaveral Port Authority more than $302,000 in wharf and other fees, as previously reported by the Orlando Business Journal

Majority Of Tea Party Group's Spending Went To GOP Firm That Created It The political action committee behind the Tea Party Express (TPE) -- which already has been slammed as inauthentic and corporate-controlled by rival factions in the Tea Party movement -- directed around two thirds of its spending during a recent reporting period back to the Republican consulting firm that created the PAC in the first place

Tea party movement could become part of the political establishment -- It could be the birth of a party. Fueled by anger at politicians and distrust of the government, the rapidly growing tea party movement could upend the political establishment in the 2010 elections -- ultimately becoming a permanent, game-changing force in American politics. Or, it could fizzle.

Can Charlie Crist Survive Florida's Right-Wing Uprising? - TIME A new voter poll was released a couple of weeks ago that showed Florida Governor Charlie Crist dropping into a tie with former state House speaker Marco Rubio — an underdog Crist had led by more than 20 points last summer — in next year's Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate.

Jeff Cohen: New Year's Resolution: Don't Apologize for Democrats For the new year, let's resolve: Don't defend Democrats when they don't deserve defending. And that certainly includes President Obama

Think Progress » Republicans Who Opposed The Stimulus Continue To Pan It As A ‘Failure,’ While Also Taking Credit For Its Success Every Republican in the House and nearly every Republican Senator voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (also known as the stimulus). Although the Congressional Budget Office has credited the stimulus with creating up to 1.6 million jobs, the same GOP politicians who opposed the stimulus have attempted to justify their opposition to the policy by smearing it as a failure. But as ThinkProgress has documented, the same politicians are returning to their districts to take credit for the economic success of the stimulus.