The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) continues to staff up as it prepares for the 2014 political cycle. On Monday, the RPOF announced it was teaming with the Republican National Committee (RNC) to bring on Tim Saler to serve as deputy executive director for political strategy while the RNC is bringing John Vinson in as its state director for Florida and Andrew Abdel-Malik is the new director of digital strategy.

Earlier this year, Rep. Daniel Davis, R-Jacksonville, announced he will not seek another term in the Florida House come 2014. With Davis taking over as the new leader of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, a major Republican candidate filed for his seat which covers much of the Westside of Jacksonville -- prominent attorney and Navy vet Paul Renner.

Former Congressman Allen West, a favorite of the tea party movement despite losing his seat to Patrick Murphy in 2012, weighed in on Wednesday on the Obama administrations decision to delay implementing the employer mandate part of the federal health care law until 2015. Posting on Facebook on Wednesday, West took aim at Obama and quoted a popular classic rock band.

Responding to the Obama administrations decision to delay enacting the employer mandate in the federal health care to 2015, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., insisted this showed the law simply did not work.

On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., weighed in on the Obama administrations decision to delay enacting the employer mandate part of the federal health care law until 2015.

The delay in the implementation of the employer mandate is another example of what weve known about Obamacare all along, Crenshaw said in a statement. Placing Washington in control of one-sixth of the nations economy was bad medicine three years ago, and its bad medicine today.

Fresh from getting the immigration reform bill through the Senate, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., shows no signs of leaving the national stage. While the immigration reform bill faces an uncertain fate in the House, Rubio agreed on Tuesday to sponsor a measure banning abortions after 20 weeks. A similar bill in Texas has been in national headlines in recent days as state Sen. Wendy Davis helped filibuster it, making her a star for Democrats. Conservatives in the House passed a similar bill to Rubios last month.

Democrats across the state and nation are increasingly excited about Gwen Graham, the daughter of Bob Graham who served two terms as governor and three in the U.S. Senate, who is running against U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla. But Graham could be facing a primary from former state Senate Democratic leader Al Lawson who ran in 2010 and 2012. Lawson almost defeated then-U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd in the primaries back in 2010 and he won the Democratic nomination to challenge Southerland in 2012.

With news breaking on Tuesday night that the Obama administration intends to delay implementing the employer mandate part of its federal health care bill until 2015, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighed in on Wednesday and called for the repeal of the entire law.

After signing the Declaration of Independence, Congress asked for it to be proclaimed in each of the United States and public readings were held throughout July 1776 across the new nation.

With that in mind, it's fitting that U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., will be leading a community reading of the Declaration of Independence to honor Independence Day on Thursday.

Deutch and others will read the Declaration on Thursday morning at the Lawton Chiles Pavilion by the South County Civic Center in Delray Beach. The event starts at 9:30 am.

On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., will be celebrating the Fourth of July by speaking to more than 200 new citizens from 50 nations who will become American citizens at the Freedom Tower in Miami. The new citizens include five members of the armed forces.

Ros-Lehtinen said, in a statement on Tuesday, that the location for the ceremony was very meaningful on both a symbolic and a personal level.