Joe Biden 2016?

The vice president, who would be 74 in 2016, surprised the political world by telling prominent Democratic donors last week that he would be interested in making a third run at the White House.

With the exception of George H.W. Bush, no sitting vice president has successfully run for the presidency since Martin Van Buren held off three Whig candidates in 1836. Two other vice-presidents -- Richard Nixon in 1960 and Al Gore in 2000 -- won their partys nomination but lost in the general election.

Gov. Rick Scott and Enterprise Florida are looking for a few good businessmen who are looking to tap into a nation to which Florida exported more than $13.7 billion in products in 2010 -- Brazil.

Enterprise Florida will be leading a delegation, headed by Scott, toS Paulo from Oct. 23-27, promoting the Sunshine State. Enterprise Florida is looking to fill up the Florida contingent at the Florida Expo Trade Show in S Paulo.

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota will announce on Monday that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination -- and take aim at President Barack Obama.

We live in the greatest country the world has ever known, Pawlenty will say in his announcement scheduled for later on Monday. But, as we all know, America is in big trouble, and it won't get fixed if we keep going down the same path.If we want a new and better direction, we need a new and better president.

Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan attacked President Barack Obamas call to return Israel to its 1967 borders.

"The borders of any Palestinian state should be determined through negotiations with Israel at the table, not announced in a presidential edict that gives away Israeli land as Palestinians continue to call for the destruction of Israel," Buchanan said on Friday. "In these days of danger and change, we must reaffirm the unbreakable bond we have forged with our most trusted ally in the Middle East.

The jobless rate in the Sunshine State continued to fall in April, coming in at 10.8 percent, down 0.3 percent from March.

The numbers, released Friday by the Agency for Workforce Innovation, reveal Florida's lowest unemployment rate since September 2009. There are also 996,000 unemployed workers in the state, the first time that number has dipped below 1 million since October 2009.

The news is bound to please Gov. Rick Scott, who has seen the unemployment rate drop 1.1 percent since taking office in January.

President Barack Obama offered a new vision of American policy in the Middle East in a major speech on Thursday -- but Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan is not buying parts of it.

Buchanan, who called for a re-evaluation of foreign aid last week, said on Thursday that the president should not be sending billions overseas to help develop democracies in the Middle East.

Floridas political leaders are continuing to weigh in on the results of the Jacksonville mayoral race in which Democratic candidate Alvin Brown pulled a major upset and beat Republican Mike Hogan.

Gov. Rick Scott has signed HB 1355, the controversial elections bill that Democrats say will disenfranchise left-leaning voters.

The bill prevents voters from changing their address the day of an election, reduces the number of early voting days, imposes restrictions and fines on third-party voter registration groups and creates a commission that will decide the date of the 2012 presidential preference primary in Florida.

Democrats contend that the bill targets college students and low-income voters likely to vote Democratic.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's friendly rivalry with Texas Gov. Rick Perry took another turn Thursday, with Scott warning the leader of the Lone Star State that his state won't be the No. 1 place to do business for long.

Chief Executive Magazine's survey of CEOs recently named Texas as the best state in the union to do business. Florida was ranked third.

With the U.S. Senate clashing over dueling energy proposals, former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner is on the attack, bashing Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelsons votes which have followed party lines.