Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, criticized Democrat U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, whom he is trying to unseat in 2012, for politicizing the killing of Osama bin Laden. Nelson told reporters in Tallahassee Monday that a GOP-backed elections bill that prevents voters from changing their address on Election Day would disenfranchise the soldiers who conducted the raid on bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan. The bill was recently amended in the Senate to provide an exception for military members and their families to change their address on Election Day.

The House passed a measure backed by Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-New Port Richey, which would repeal the bill on red-light cameras passed in the 2010 session. The repeal measure passed by the slimmest of margins59 to 57. Nothing like a little drama on Monday on Week 9, said Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, after reading the results.

Long-awaited action on the Senate's immigration bill will wait for another day. Slogging through Monday's agenda, Senate President Mike Haridopolos said Senate Bill 2040 will be heard Tuesday. "We want to make sure everyone knows what they're voting on," Haridopolos said of the heavily amended measure that started out as a straight E-Verify bill. Under pressure from business groups and migrant-rights organizations, the measure has stalled. The House, meantime, is holding up its tougher enforcement measure (HB 7089) until the Senate votes.

Conservative Christian leaders weighed in on Monday after hearing news that Osama bin Laden was killed during a raid on his compound in Pakistan.

Florida House Majority Leader Carlos Lopez-Cantera fired back at U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., for politicizing the assassination of Osama bin Laden.

After declining comment a week ago, U.S. Senate hopeful George LeMieux entered the immigration debate via Twitter on Monday morning. "Florida needs a strong E-Verify bill. Call your local state senator and make your voice heard," LeMieux (or an aide) wrote. Neither LeMieux nor Adam Hasner offered a comment when Sunshine State News raised the issue last week in regard to state Senate President Mike Haridopolos' handling of the immigration issue. Hasner's camp was still mum on deadline.

While the last flight of the space shuttle Endeavor was supposed to be Friday, the launch was canceled due to concerns over a heater circuit. While initially there was talk about moving the launch to Sunday and then Monday, NASA administrators are now insisting that the earliest the shuttle will take off will be Sunday, May 8. In the meantime, the six astronauts are heading back to Texas for more training.

Did the United States cede the moral high ground when it dumped Osama bin Laden's body into the ocean? The decision by U.S. forces to bury the terrorist kingpin at sea has roiled the Arab street. Muslim clerics told the Associated Press Monday that bin Laden's sea burial was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.

The jokes about Osama bin Laden were already outdated, but the roasting of Donald Trump over at the White House Correspondents' Dinner came with a Florida connection. Gov. Rick Scott was sitting to the left of The Donald, and, from the brief camera scans, neither appeared much amused by the proceedings.

On Monday morning, Gov. Rick Scott issued a statement regarding the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Before embarking on the last week of the legislative session, the Florida Senate took time to recognize the momentous killing of Osama bin Laden late Sunday. "Iwant to applaud the incredible forces that carried out this mission. I also want to applaud Barack Obama, our commander in chief [for a] job well done," Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, said to open up the Senate session Monday. The statement elicited a round of applause from his fellow senators, staffers, and people in the gallery.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, hailed the death of al-Qaida kingpin Osama bin Laden. In a statement issued early Monday, CAIR declared: "We join our fellow citizens in welcoming the announcement that Osama bin Laden has been eliminated as a threat to our nation and the world through the actions of American military personnel.

Many of the possible candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination weighed in late Sunday as news broke that Osama bin Laden was killed by American forces.

With news that American forces killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Floridas leaders cheered the news late Sunday. Bin Laden killed!, cheered Rep. Joe Felix Diaz, R-Miami. Tonight the world is a safer place. God bless the U.S.A. Death of Osama Bin Laden is a long-awaited victory in the war on terror, noted former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux who is running in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in 2012. Let's remember in this moment those that died on 9/11.

Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio offered his thoughts on thekilling of terrorist Osama bin Laden by American forces moments after President Barack Obama made the announcement. "Just as every American will never forget where we were when America was attacked on 9/11, this moment will forever be remembered by each one of us as the day justice for that tragedy was finally served, said Rubio.