With a new book coming out on Tuesday and buzz building that he will make a second attempt at the Republican presidential nomination, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Monday that he was still contemplating whether to jump into the fray in 2012.

Huckabee said that he was not waiting for another candidate to emerge, but added that there could be one option he could easily back -- former Gov. Jeb Bush.

If Jeb Bush runs, I would go and help him, insisted Huckabee. I love him and think the world of him.

Sen. Greg Evers, R-Baker, wrote Gov. Rick Scott and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, withdrawing his name from the letter that he signed along with 25 other senators, asking for more time from the federal government to obtain the funds for a high-speed rail project that Scott had rejected.

Evers, who represents all of Holmes and Washington counties and parts of Bay, Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties claimed to be revoking my signature from the letter sent to LaHood last week.

As the nation continued to focus on Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin taking on unionized government workers, possible presidential candidates are weighing in on the matter. Walker has called for eliminating collective bargaining for everything but wages for state workers outside the public safety fields -- prompting Democratic legislators to head out of the state.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin weighed in on the matter over the weekend.

Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan weighed in on Sunday on the House passing a resolution cutting $100 billion from the federal budget over the weekend.

"We cannot spend our way to prosperity," said Buchanan, who added they needed to do more. "This is only a small down payment on what must be done to rein in our runaway debt and restore fiscal sanity to Washington.

A new poll from Rasmussen Reports found that voters across the nation learned toward backing Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin over unionized government workers in their showdown.

State leaders are crowing over Florida being ranked as the fourth largest exporter state in the union -- but think there is room to improve.

The U.S. Department of Commerce released statistics showing the Sunshine State is behind Texas, California and New York, in that order, in exports.

Republican U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, who represents the First Coast and parts of North Florida in Congress, praised the U.S. House for passing a continuing resolution on Saturday that will keep the federal government running till the end of September -- and noted that the new GOP majority helped trim its cost.

Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns weighed in late last week after the House backed an amendment he filed on cutting federal funding for renovations of the U.N. building on Friday night.

A bipartisan coalition in Congress helped beat back proposed amendments to eliminate federal funding of Radio and TV Marti, the stations broadcast to Cuba.

Members of the Florida delegation -- including Republicans U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, U.S. Rep. David Rivera and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Democratic colleagues such as U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- helped keep the funding in place.

Rivera sent a letter to his fellow freshmen in Congress, urging them to keep backing Radio and TV Marti.

Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, is looking to subject the assets of convicted pain mill operators to the Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act.

If the rules and regulations that Florida has put into place have not scared off pill mill operators, passage of this law will, said Fasano on Monday.Failure to register as a pain clinic will allow law enforcement to impound all assets of the pill mill. Without the building, land and equipment needed to operate, the pill mill operators will shut down and leave the state.