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WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, the ranking Republican of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today urged the Obama Administration to add Venezuela to the list of countries from which passengers must receive additional security screening prior to coming to the United States.

Recently, the Administration announced that citizens from 14 countries, [...]

On Christmas Day, terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped through the cracks of our nation’s security and attempted to bomb Northwest Flight 253 on its way to Detroit. Because of the bravery and quick actions of the passengers on the Northwest flight, a major tragedy was averted.

President Obama and his administration were slow to react. Department [...]

By I.M. STACKEL, the Naples Daily News

NAPLES - Naples’ downtown post office is no longer an endangered species.

U.S. Congressman Connie Mack announced Monday afternoon that the downtown Naples Post Office, at 860 Sixth Ave. S., was removed from the U.S. Post Office’s list of potential closures.

Mack praised a strong Naples lobby for saving the office [...]

By MCKENZIE CASSIDY, the Cape Coral Daily Breeze

Only four months after the Department of Veterans Affairs opened bids on a new clinic in Cape Coral, the $53.1 million construction project was awarded to Kraft Construction Company Inc. from Naples.

The 224,000-square-foot clinic will be constructed on a 30-acre parcel of land on the northwest corner of [...]

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez — together with the likes of Cuba’s Castro brothers, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega — is spewing a populist, leftist, and strongly anti-American brand of politics that is spreading throughout Latin America. There, a rebellion against Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution is gathering that the Obama administration seems eager to quell.

One [...]