With the Castro regime threatening to charge democracy activist Gustavo Pérez Silverio as a terrorist, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., one of the leading congressional Republican voices on foreign affairs, took to the House floor on Thursday. 

This week, news broke that U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Isakson is planning to run again in 2016 which is welcome news to U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. 

Republicans at the state and national level are bashing Democratic congressional candidate Annette Taddeo for holding a fundraising event this week with U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Reports have emerged that Democrats helped run a straw candidate for Congress back in 2010 in this South Florida district and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) have called on Taddeo to distance herself from the DCCC for its role in the 2010 campaign. Taddeo is running for her party's nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla.

Gov. Rick Scott is bouncing back in his second term. That’s what a St. Leo University poll released Thursday shows. Scott is above water with 50 percent approving of him and 45 percent disapproving of him. 

On Wednesday night, U.S. Rep. Curt Clawson, R-Fla., took to the House floor, insisting sending taxpayer funds to arm Syrian rebels was not helping in the fight against Islamic State (IS) terrorism. 

U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis voted to back the Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act on Wednesday, noting it would help prevent a trade war with Canada and Mexico. 

The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) called on U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., to stand against U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s, D-Nev., plan to block the Senate appropriations process. Murphy is running for the Democratic nomination to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released a report Wednesday indicating no changes in citrus from the Sunshine State. 

With U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., planning to block appropriations measures, Florida Republicans in the U.S. House urged U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., to oppose his leader. 

From her perch as chair of the U.S. House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., held a hearing on “Iran’s Enduring Ballistic Missile Threat" on Wednesday. The Florida congresswoman issued a warning on the dangers a nuclear Iran poses: