U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., introduced a bill on Monday to allow Americans to use numbers issued by employers instead of Social Security numbers when they file their taxes. 

State Rep. Charlie Stone, R-Ocala, announced on Monday he was backing Tallahassee attorney Mary Thomas to take on U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, D-Fla. 

With reports emerging in recent days that President Barack Obama will meet with Cuban strongman Raul Castro at the United Nations on Tuesday, a prominent Florida Republican slammed the White House for “appeasing tyrants.”

In the aftermath of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announcing on Friday that he is leaving Congress at the end of last month, U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., made his case on why he wants to take his place. 

The Democratic leadership in Washington, D.C. doubled down on its support of former Miami Dade Democratic Chairwoman Annette Taddeo over the weekend as U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-NM, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) went to bat for her. 

Now trailing many of the top Republican candidates in polls of Florida, the largest swing state on the map, former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination, will be heading to the Sunshine State this week. 

With U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the GOP whip in Congress, now running to be House majority leader in the shakeup after U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced he was going to give up his seat at the end of October,  U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., currently the senior deputy majority whip, announced on Friday he will run for majority whip. 

U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., challenged U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in a leadership fight at the start of the year but noted on Friday he has not made up his mind about another bid for the gavel. 

U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., weighed in on Friday after U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced he was leaving Congress at the end of next month. 

Craig Weiner, the president of the Holocaust Learning and Education Fund and one of the leaders of South Florida’s Jewish community, slammed U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., for her support of President Barack Obama’s deal with Iran over its nuclear program. 

Part of the GOP congressional leadership as senior deputy majority whip, U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., called for “strong, conservative leadership” now that U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is on the way out. 

With U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announcing on Friday that he will leave Congress by the end of October, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), offered him some praise on the way out. 

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., one of the leading congressional Republican voices on international affairs, praised U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Friday as he announced his plans to resign by the end of October. 

Republican congressmen from Florida may have been at the heart of opposition to U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in the GOP caucus but U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., said the Ohio Republicans’s resignation will be a “major loss” and offered praise for him on Friday. 

With U.S. House Speaker John Boehner,  R-Ohio, announcing on Friday that he will leave Congress by the end of October, a longtime Florida congressman said the GOP caucus was in a “state of shock” over the news.