More than 70 members of Congress will be wearing orange lapel pins on Tuesday night when President Barack Obama offers his State of the Union address. The pins indicate support of No Labels, a group trying to push bipartisan solutions in Washington.

Gov. Rick Scott continued unveiling parts of his proposed budget, focusing on education on Monday morning. Scott announced his proposed budget would send $18.84 billion for K-12 public schools, $2 billion for state colleges and $3.59 billion for Floridas state universities. All of these are the highest levels in state history.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continued to warn about taxpayer dollars being used to bail out President Barack Obamas federal health-care law. Rubio responded to a constituent question about the issue.

Florida writer Patrick Smith, best known for his historical novel A Land Remembered which offered a sweeping glance at Florida history through the story of a family, passed away on Sunday. Smith was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times and was also nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In a warm, accessible way, Patrick Smith told the Florida story, said Florida Agricultural Commissioner Adam Putnam. His story of the courage, greed, love and loss in the swamps and glades of our state will be a Florida classic for many decades to come.

Gov. Rick Scott reached across party lines to appoint former Rep. Mack Bernard to the Florida Elections Commission on Friday.

After serving in the House from 2009-2012, Bernard ran in the Democratic primary for a Florida Senate seat. Bernard lost by the skin of his teeth to Jeff Clemens with accusations of voting irregularities.

Bernard will served until the end of 2016.

In 2010, in a major political upset, Marco Rubio drove then-Gov. Charlie Crist out of the Republican Party and beat him in the U.S. Senate race by pointing out his support of President Barack Obamas federal stimulus. With Crist now a Democrat running against Gov. Rick Scott, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) picked up the same attack on Monday.

On Friday, Gov. Rick Scott announced that 14 communities across the Sunshine State will recieve $2.45 million in defense grants

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) looked to pin down former state CFO Alex Sink on President Barack Obama's health care law. Sink is the Democratic candidate running in the special election for the congressional seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla.

Noting that the likes of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said that Democrats will defend the law on the campaign trail, the NRCC asked Sink to sign a pledge on the issue.

Former U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., went on the attack against President Barack Obama on Thursday, insisting the Democrat was weak when it came to foreign policy and the war on terror.

We're now learning that the so-called deal Barack Obama made with Iran in regards to their nuclear ambitions isn't as advertised, West emailed supporters. According to Iranian officials, we did not agree to dismantle anything and the Obama administration's version of the agreement underplays the concessions and overplays Iranian commitments.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) took off the gloves on Thursday and went after Democratic congressional hopeful Gwen Graham who is challenging U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla.

The NRCC noted Graham, the daughter of former U.S. Sen. and Gov. Bob Graham, has accepted money from U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talk-show host Jerry Springer and prominent Democratic fundraiser and trial lawyer John Morgan. The NRCC pointed to Morgan facing accusations of DUI and attacking a police officer in the late 1990s.