Running to replace term-limited state Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, businesswoman Monique Miller, who offered a conservative challenge to a state Senate incumbent in 2014, announced this week she made the ballot via petition. 

On Tuesday, the  Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF) threw its support behind three Republicans running for U.S. House seats including Tallahassee attorney Mary Thomas who is hoping to take on U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, D-Fla. 

Three Republicans in the state Senate--Aaron Bean of Fernandina Beach, Rob Bradley of Fleming Island and Travis Hutson of Elkton--announced on Monday they were backing Brandon Patty, a Navy veteran and who worked as an aide to Gov. Jeb Bush and on Marco Rubio’s Senate bid in 2010, to replace U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla. 

While some groups have expressed their dissatisfaction with the water protection bill from Sen. Charlie Dean, R-Inverness, and Rep. Matt Caldwell, R-Lehigh Acres, one prominent environmentalist is behind the effort. 

With the Legislature assembling in Tallahassee on Tuesday for the start of the regular session, some of the leadership of the business community launched a TV commercial on Friday urging legislators back Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to cut the commercial lease tax. 

U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., part of the congressional leadership as senior deputy majority whip, announced on Friday afternoon he was backing a measure censuring President Barack Obama over his use of executive action to push gun control. 

From his perch as chairman of the U.S. House National Security Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., slammed former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton after information was released showing she had staff send classified information over unsecure connections.

After the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reported there were almost 42,000 unopened packages and letters in the VA’s claims office in St. Petersburg, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., renewed his call to reform that department. 

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., cheered the U.S. Treasury Department for enacting sanctions on Ali Youssef Charara and his Spectrum Investment Group Holding SAL telecommunications company for Hezbollah.

With the federal Fish and Wildlife Service trying to move manatees from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., stressed his opposition on Thursday.

From his perch as chairman of the U.S. Senate Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., ripped into the Maduro regime in Venezuela, accusing it of standing in the way of last month’s elections and hindering the democratic process. 

Americans for Prosperity’s (AFP) Florida chapter continued to push against Gov. Rick Scott’s call for an additional $250 million to Enterprise Florida. 

Leading in some of the polls in Iowa, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced on Wednesday that U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, will co-chair his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. 

Former Naples Vice Mayor Gary Price announced on Wednesday that he was ending his bid for the Florida Senate that is currently held by Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples. Price said his young son’s declining health was the chief reason he was getting out of the race. 

After reports broke that North Korea had tested a hydrogen bomb, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, now running for the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate race, weighed in, insisting President Barack Obama’s policies were to blame.