Republicans at the state and national level are bashing Democratic congressional candidate Annette Taddeo for holding a fundraising event this week with U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Reports have emerged that Democrats helped run a straw candidate for Congress back in 2010 in this South Florida district and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) have called on Taddeo to distance herself from the DCCC for its role in the 2010 campaign. Taddeo is running for her party's nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla.

Gov. Rick Scott is bouncing back in his second term. That’s what a St. Leo University poll released Thursday shows.

On Wednesday night, U.S. Rep. Curt Clawson, R-Fla., took to the House floor, insisting sending taxpayer funds to arm Syrian rebels was not helping in the fight against Islamic State (IS) terrorism. 

U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis voted to back the Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act on Wednesday, noting it would help prevent a trade war with Canada and Mexico. 

The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) called on U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., to stand against U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s, D-Nev., plan to block the Senate appropriations process. Murphy is running for the Democratic nomination to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released a report Wednesday indicating no changes in citrus from the Sunshine State. 

With U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., planning to block appropriations measures, Florida Republicans in the U.S. House urged U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., to oppose his leader. 

From her perch as chair of the U.S. House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, U.S. Rep.

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., running for the Democratic nomination to replace U.S. Sen.

U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., supported the “Commodity End-User Relief Act” on Tuesday, insisting that it would help rein in Dodd-Frank, namely the overreach of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on agriculture and energy. 

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that former Gov. Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise super-PAC might not be able to hit the $100 million mark by the end of June: A super-PAC backing former Florida governor Jeb Bush is likely to fall short of collecting $100 million by the end of this month, despite widespread expectations that the group would hit that record-breaking sum, according to people close to the operation.

Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, is drawing increasingly closer to a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Kasich ran for the GOP nomination briefly in 1999 when he was the U.S. House budget chairman but he quickly threw his support behind then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush. 

From his perch as chairman of the U.S. Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., cheered the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill clearing the House on Tuesday. 

Florida Republicans looked to put U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and a South Florida Democrat on the defensive on Wednesday, demanding an apology for his group’s role in running “straw candidate" Roly Arrojo for Congress in 2010. 

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., now running for the Republican presidential nomination, slammed President Barack Obama’s handling of Islamic State (IS) forces in the Middle East.