While he may have been in Congress for less than two weeks, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross is making an impression -- being chosen to lead the Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce under the umbrella of the full Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Business leaders and charity organizers wrote to Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday calling for the elimination of hurricane taxes on insurance premiums.

The leaders argued that Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (Cat Fund) have failed -- with Florida taxpayers still paying off damages from storms back in 2004 and 2005.

Pro-life leader Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue who may be best known to Floridians for his role as the spokesman for Terri Schiavos parents and for his challenge of state Sen. Jim King in the Republican primary back in 2006, will announce on Thursday that he will run against President Barack Obama in the 2012 Democratic primaries.

Mark Hinkle, the chairman of the Libertarian Party, offered lukewarm praise for President Barack Obama easing travel and financial restrictions on Cuba.

The president has shown less-than-tremendous courage here, said Hinkle on Tuesday. I suppose it's a tiny positive step that our government will permit Americans to send $500 to a Cuban every three months. And churches will be allowed to arrange trips to Cuba, as long as they jump through a lot of bureaucratic hoops first.

Lanny Wiles, a longtime fixture of Florida and national politics who most recently served on Rick Scotts team, has joined the Advocacy Group at Cardenas Partners. Al Cardenas, a senior partner at the Advocacy Group, announced Wiles was joining their team on Tuesday.

With 2012 looming on the horizon, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called on Tuesday for Congress to repeal the health care law passed last year with the support of President Barack Obama.

Huckabee, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, offered strong support for repeal which will be pushed by the new Republican majority in the U.S. House on Wednesday.

Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, met with Gov. Rick Scott Monday to talk about Florida's transportation projects, including a high-speed rail line connecting Tampa and Orlando.

Mica, of Winter Park, who represents Florida's 7th Congressional District, called for no more government funding for the project and said he and Gov. Scott are on the same wave length.

According to Politico, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has yet to decide whether or not to join the official Tea Party Caucus.

In the story, Rubio's spokesperson said he is still committed to tea party ideals and goals, but hasn't made an official decision on joining the caucus.

Market Watch rated the states most likely to recover from the housing crisis the fastest and the slowest last week, and the Sunshine State was ranked as the fourth-slowest state.

Florida's 6 percent mortgage delinquency rate, 11.7 percent unemployment rate and 46.9 percent slide in home prices since the housing bubble burst were cited to explain the state's snail-like recovery.

Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio offered his thoughts on the King holiday on Monday.