During the 112th Congress, Florida District 20 Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz sponsored six bills. With a Congress member's average number of bills standing at 14, that ranks her at No. 371 of 442 members.

These are her bills:

H.RES. 647: Recognizing the 100th Anniversary of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America in 2012 (5/9/12).

HR 4362: Stop Identity Theft Act of 2012 (4/16/12).

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity reported Monday that Ocala and Palm Coast led all of Floridas metro areas with the largest over-the-year unemployment rate drop from September 2011 to September 2012. Each turned in a 2.6 percentage point decrease (not seasonally adjusted).

A new Sunshine State News poll shows incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson holds a 5-percentage-point lead over Republican challenger U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, 49 to 44 percent, just as early voting begins and the race moves into its final days.

The battle now shifts to the remaining 7 percent of undecideds, the bulk of whom live along the Central Florida Interstate-4 corridor.

Within the night-and-day fundraising blitz the Democrats foist on their Internet supporters comes this latest, telling piece of email from Jim Messina, campaign manager, Obama for America. Seems the president is losing the fundraising battle.

"I'm asking you to dig deep, because I have some bad news," writes Messina.

"We just found out that Mitt Romney and the Republicans outraised us in the first half of this month, putting us $45 million behind during these crucial final days.

In conjunction with Voter Survey Service (VSS) of Harrisburg, Pa., Sunshine State News will release survey results and analyses in Florida's two headliner races of the 2012 general election on Friday and Saturday -- the presidential race first and Florida's U.S. Senate race on the weekend.

With less than two weeks to go before voting day on Nov. 6, Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney are pulling out all the stops to win the Sunshine State.

The Florida Council of 100 released a statement Thursday hailing Gov. Rick Scotts "College & Career FIRST" education initiative:

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Connie Mack, the congressman who chairs the House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, strongly condemned reports on Monday that the United Nations is preparing to monitor the upcoming U.S. election. That's a service U.S. citizens traditionally perform for fledgling and shaky democracies, he said.

Rosemary Goudreau, co-founder of floridavoices.com, began this morning as editorial page editor of the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. In a column today on the all-opinion website, Goudreau said she and business partner Rosemary Curtiss will continue to keep the 11-month-old site going.

Tim Tebow popularized the act of dropping to one knee to give thanks to God during football games, and now he owns the trademark for it.

A just-out CNN/ORC poll of likely voters in Florida shows President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney statistically tied once again.

The race has been wandering back and forth between red and blue here in the Sunshine State for the past month.