Ron DeSantis, an attorney and veteran who is running for Congress in a new seat representing a district going from St. Johns County south to Volusia County on the Atlantic coast, continues to garner impressive national support. Earlier in the week, DeSantis unveiled the backing of U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. On Tuesday, DeSantis announced that the Club for Growth PAC is backing his congressional bid.

Tropical Storm Debby has already generated 1,350 claims from Citizens Property Insurance. And as the storm slowly makes its way across the state, Barry Gilway, the new president of the state-backed insurance provider expects the state will soon be flooded with more. Clearly youre going to see an acceleration of claims, particularly water-related, said Gilway.

Floridas Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater will unveil a new means for the public to track state contracts on Wednesday, his office announced Tuesday. The online program is the result of Senate Bill 2096, which legislators approved in 2011, requires public access to a state contract management system.

With the Supreme Court of the United States expected to rule on Thursday over the constitutionality of the federal health-care law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010, Florida Gov. Rick Scott doubled down on his opposition to it on Tuesday. Scott was a prominent opponent of the federal health-care proposal and has been a staunch backer of the constitutional challenge from Florida and more than 20 other states to the law.

U.S. Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, called the U.S. Supreme Court decision to let a 2006 Florida law he sponsored that restricts travel to Cuba stand, a victory for Floridas taxpayers. By agreeing not to hear the appeal, the court on Monday let stand the law restricting travel to Cuba. The faculty senate from Florida International University had challenged the law as an infringement on the federal governments policy decision-making.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court had upheld the law.

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam has added two weeks to the oyster harvesting period in Apalachicola Bay because of Tropical Storm Debby. The normal 45-day licensing period for the commercial harvesting that normally ends June 30 was extended through the end of the day on July 13.

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater will host the 2012 Small-Business Leadership Forum, in partnership with The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship, at Florida State University in Tampa on Sept. 6-7. The forum, to be held at the Westin Harbour Island Hotel, brings together business leaders, investors, and academic and industry experts.

Florida is in a state of emergency awaiting Tropical Storm Debby, which is expected to strike in the Big Bend region later this week, Gov. Rick Scott announced Monday. The storm, creeping toward Taylor and Dixie counties on Monday, may not reach land until Wednesday or Thursday, Scott said in a media conference at the Florida Division of Emergency Management. Were going to have flooding and potential tornadoes, Scott cautioned.

Florida Gulf Coast University will ask the Florida Board of Governors to reconsider the 12 percent tuition increase approved last week. The Fort Myers-based state university had asked for a 14 percent increase. Last Thursday, the Board of Governors granted four universities -- Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, University of Central Florida and New College the ability to hike tuition to the maximum 15 percent.

Little reported so far is Monday morning's 5-4 Supreme Court decision to overturn a Montana campaign finance law that would have limited corporation and union political speech. An outraged Common Cause, the organization pushing for the Montana law, calls the decision to support Citizens United "a brazen attempt to buy our elections out from under us." Montana's highest court defied the 2010 Citizens United ruling by upholding a centuries-old ban on corporate political spending. It was that case at the state level that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear.

On Monday, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, announced that Young Americans for Romney will be led by his son Craig. But there are heirs to other political dynasties as well on the leadership team of the new group -- including Jeb Bush Jr. and David Cardenas, the son of Al Cardenas, currently the chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU) and formerly in charge of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF).

Before the Supreme Court of the United States gutted much of the Arizona immigration law on Monday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighed in on the issue on an appearance on Fox and Friends on Fox News.

The wait for a decision on Americas health care future will continue for a few more days as no ruling was handed down Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court, FOX News is reporting. The ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, now appears likely Wednesday or Thursday, as the nine-month term comes to an end. The court can kill the entire law, kill portions of the law or uphold the law that extends insurance to approximately 30 million people and a mandate that requires every citizen to pay for coverage.

Attorney and veteran Ron DeSantis continues to reel in impressive endorsements as he runs for the Republican nomination for a new congressional district stretching from the suburbs of Jacksonville to Volusia County. On Monday, DeSantis announced that he had garnered the support of U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Ut, a tea party favorite who defeated longtime incumbent Robert Bennett in the 2010 Republican primary.

Gov. Rick Scott has canceled a pair of events planned in Tampa to be in Tallahassee for an update on Tropical Storm Debby. Scott was scheduled to tour Tampa Tank Inc., and Florida Structural Steel and First Lady Ann Scott were to visit the Center for Advanced Medical Learning in Tampa. The governor instead will receive a briefing on Debby at the Florida Division of Emergency Management center at 11:20 a.m.