Reclaim America, a PAC affiliated with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is standing against President Barack Obamas latest round of EPA regulations. On Friday, Reclaim America announced it was gathering petitions opposed to Obamas EPA reforms.

JaxBiz, a political group with ties to the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, unveiled a host of legislative endorsements in races on the First Coast on Friday. Last month, the group backed Paul Renner for the House seat left open by the retirement of Rep. Daniel Davis, R-Jacksonville, who heads up the Jacksonville Chamber. Earlier this week, the group announced it was backing Gov. Rick Scott for a second term.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., cheered the news that parts of his bill giving the VA secretary more room to fire incompetent employees was going to be incorporated into a compromise measure brought forth by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Earlier in the week, Rubio announced more than half of the Senate was co-sponsoring his bill. A similar proposal from U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., passed the House last month.

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste named U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., as a Taxpayer Hero for his record last year in Congress.

Gov. Rick Scott spent part of this week touring the state, focusing on small-business issues. On Thursday, the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) announced it was endorsing Scott with its Florida chairman, Jerry Pierce, leading a Small Business for Scott group.

Noting that his bill reforming the VA department now had a majority of the U.S. Senate co-sponsoring it, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., called for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to bring it for a vote. Rubios bill, which would give the VA secretary more authority to fire underpeforming employees, has 11 Democrats on board including U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.

Lets Get to Work, a group connected to Gov. Rick Scott, released a radio ad on Thursday in Spanish. The ad focuses on Scotts record and stays away from attacking his opponents.

The translation of the ad reads as follows:

What do we expect from our elected officials? That if they make a promise, they keep it. That they care about our future. That they seek ways to create opportunities. That is what Governor Rick Scott has meant for our state. He promised to create jobs. Today there are 600,000 new jobs that businesses have created and unemployment is declining.

Gov. Rick Scott reeled in the endorsement of Alachua Mayor Gib Coerper, a Democrat, who crossed party lines to back him on Wednesday.

Gov. Rick Scott joined five other Republican governors -- Sam Brownback of Kansas, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Paul LePage of Maine, Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania and Rick Perry of Texas -- in sending a letter on Wednesday to President Barack Obama, urging him to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA department has been under fire in recent weeks after reports emerged across the nation of altered waiting lists at VA medical facilities. Eric Shinseki resigned his post as VA secretary last week after a critical inspector generals report on VA medical facilities.

Southwest Florida businessman Chauncey Solinger is back for a rematch with Rep. Ray Rodrigues, R-Fort Myers. In a three-way primary back in 2012, Solinger took 22 percent in the Republican primary but Rodrigues won with 50 percent. Solinger filed to run for the seat again on Tuesday.

Rodrigues, the vice chairman of the Higher Education and Workforce Subcommittee, raised almost $64,000 by the end of April but spent almost $21,000 of it.