On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags across Florida to be flown at half-staff to honor the four Marines and the Navy officer killed by a jihadist gunman in Chattanooga, Tennessee last week. Scott ordered the flags remain at half-staff until the last of those five servicemen were buried. 

Gov. Rick Scott weighed in on Monday as the U.S. and Cuba opened embassies for the first time in more than 50 years. 

Conservatives are starting to take aim at new U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla. On Monday, Jolly entered the race to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016. 

On Friday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced a measure to reauthorize United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for six years while offering some internal reforms to it. 

On Monday, U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., will enter the race to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016. Jolly changed out his campaign site on Monday noting he was running for the Senate.

Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, doubled down on his opposition to President Barack Obama’s deal with Iran on that nation’s nuclear program. 

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. who sits on both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday, urging that any deal with Iran include the release of American citizens held by the Iranian regime. 

Veteran Brian Mast, running for the Republican nomination to replace U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., in Congress, offered his take on Friday on the shooting spree in Chattanooga in which a Muslim man shot up a recruiting center before heading toward a Navy and Marines reserve center where he killed four Marines.

Gov. Rick Scott announced on Friday that the state unemployment rate dropped to 5.5 percent in June as 12,200 new jobs were added to the private sector. The unemployment rate had stood at 5.7 percent in May. 

Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera entered the race to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Wednesday and, on Thursday, unveiled a major endorsement: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Rubio is running for the Republican presidential nomination and is not expected to run for a second Senate term in 2016.