Roll Call obtained an email with the top targets of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in the weeks to come -- and not one of the 17 incumbent Republicans is from Florida. With the congressional recess here, the DCCC will be ramping up the attacks on the Republican congressmen as they look to win back the House in 2014.

Gov. Rick Scott is looking to lure jobs from Massachusetts to Florida. On Thursday, Scott released a letter to business leaders in the Bay State in which he urged them to examine the possibility of relocating to Florida.

With the likes of former U.S. Sen Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and U.S. Sen.Ted Cruz, R-Texas, heading out to Iowa this weekend for the Family Leader Summit in Ames, eyes are starting to turn to the Hawkeye State as the race for the Republican presidential nomination starts to shape up.

With the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to take up a major case on the role of religion in the public square, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., offered his thoughts on Thursday. Earlier in the week, Rubio joined an amicus brief for Town of Greece v. Galloway, a religious liberty case which the Supreme Court of the United States took up regarding a federal appeals court ruling that having a prayer at town board meetings violated the Constitution.

Former Congressman Allen West ripped into civil rights activists for being silent on an incident in Gulfport in which three African-American teenagers beat up a younger white teenager who refused to buy drugs from them. The incident was caught on video and the bus driver, John Moody, is under fire for doing little to prevent it.

Almost 50 members of Congress from both parties joined in a letter sent to Baroness Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union (EU), praising the EU for classifying Hezbollahs military operations as terrorism. The congressmen urged the EU to classify all of Hezbollah as terrorists.

Members of both parties signed the letter, including Florida Republicans Gus Bilirakis, Jeff Miller and Mario Diaz-Balart, and Florida Democrats Ted Deutch, Alcee Hastings and Lois Frankel.

Former Congressman Allen West, who has opened the door to a political comeback in 2016, weighed in this week on the start of the trial of the Fort Hood shooter.

Sunshine State News is hitting the radio airwaves on Wednesday from 3:20-4 p.m. Your humble blogger will be on the Ed Dean radio show, which is hosted by one of the most feisty, informative and entertaining conservatives in Florida. It can be heard onlinehereand on two stations in Central Florida -- 89.3 on the west coast and 90.3 on the Atlantic coast.

Former Congressman Ron Paul, the Texan who is well-known for his three bids for the presidency, is planning to launch the Ron Paul Channel in the days to come. On Wednesday, Paul offered a sneak peek of his new channel.

In a video released on Wednesday, responding to constituent messages , U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighed in on the August congressional recess.