U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., running for the Democratic nomination to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016, on Wednesday doubled down on his support for raising the minimum wage. 

“What helps workers, businesses, and the economy as a whole?” Murphy asked on Wednesday. “Raising the minimum wage. That's why I'm sponsoring the Raise the Wage Act in the House. The Raise the Wage Act would raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020, and it would benefit more than 2.2 million Floridians.

U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., supported the “Commodity End-User Relief Act” on Tuesday, insisting that it would help rein in Dodd-Frank, namely the overreach of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on agriculture and energy. 

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that former Gov. Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise super-PAC might not be able to hit the $100 million mark by the end of June:

A super-PAC backing former Florida governor Jeb Bush is likely to fall short of collecting $100 million by the end of this month, despite widespread expectations that the group would hit that record-breaking sum, according to people close to the operation.

Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, is drawing increasingly closer to a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Kasich ran for the GOP nomination briefly in 1999 when he was the U.S. House budget chairman but he quickly threw his support behind then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush. 

From his perch as chairman of the U.S. Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., cheered the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill clearing the House on Tuesday. 

Florida Republicans looked to put U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and a South Florida Democrat on the defensive on Wednesday, demanding an apology for his group’s role in running “straw candidate" Roly Arrojo for Congress in 2010. 

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., now running for the Republican presidential nomination, slammed President Barack Obama’s handling of Islamic State (IS) forces in the Middle East. 
 

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., running once again for the Republican presidential nomination, has a strategy in response to the cyber attack on the federal government which included stealing Social Security numbers and other information on 4 million federal employees: “hack China back.” There are reports that the cyber attack emanated from China. 

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., now running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, made the case for same-sex marriage on Monday. 

“I believe in equal rights for all Americans, regardless of race, creed, gender, religion, or sexual orientation," Murphy insisted on Monday. “Love is love, regardless of gender. All families deserve to have equal representation under the law. Those are just three reasons why I support marriage equality. 

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., hasn’t exactly covered herself in glory at her post as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) since the 2012 presidential election but in Philadelphia on Monday she named the team overseeing the the 2016 Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC).