All but one of Floridas Republican senators got a passing grade, with two earning perfect scores -- Garrett Richter, R-Naples, and Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando -- and 13 others picking up A's for their votes in the regular session from the Florida Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber on Friday released its annual post-session report card on how legislators vote Chamber issues during the 60-day session, ranging from support of personal injury protection insurance reform and numeric nutrient criteria for state waters to opposition to the expansion of casinos.

Hopefuls have already started to line up for the new Senate districts, eying vacant and redrawn seats that will force incumbents to learn new constituents in the upper chamber, though the boundaries have yet to be formally approved.

The possibility exists for only two contests among sitting Senate incumbents under the revamped map. Still, with term limits and some congressional aspirations, the Senate has 14 to 15 open seats and a number of current and former House members believe they are ready to move up.

Vice President Joe Biden, Barack Obama's envoy to the white working class, revved up a crowd of South Florida retirees Friday.

Speaking at the blue-collar retirement community of Wynmoor Village in Coconut Creek, Biden hammered at the theme of "economic security for America's seniors" and ripped into Republicans.

"Theres no question that the aging of the baby boomers puts new pressures on Medicare and Social Security," the Delaware Democrat told an overflow crowd of 600 residents aged 55-plus.

After the Louisiana primary on Saturday, the procession of states that are determining which Republican will challenge President Barack Obama in November slows down with the next round coming up on April 3 when the District of Columbia, Maryland and Wisconsin have their say.

Wisconsin is the largest prize of the three with 42 delegates to the Republican convention in Tampa -- and a poll released at the end of last week shows Mitt Romney in solid shape to win the state.

Two polls unveiled on Friday show Rick Santorum has a commanding lead over Mitt Romney in the Louisiana Republican presidential primary, which will be held on Saturday. When Republicans meet at their national convention in Tampa come August, Louisiana will have 46 delegates.

A number of bills, including one inspired by the death of Caylee Anthony that would increase penalties for failing to report missing children and two bills backed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, reached the desk of Gov. Rick Scott Friday.

The bills backed by Bondi would increase penalties for human trafficking and eliminate a loophole she says has allowed scam artists to thrive on people seeking to quickly sell timeshares.

With Friday marking the two-year anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the federal health-care bill into law, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney called for repealing the law -- even as his rivals for the GOP nomination took aim at the state health-care law he signed in Massachusetts and a challenge to it heads to the Supreme Court.

Revisiting an issue that has drawn heavy debate in the insurance industry, state officials on Thursday heard arguments about new regulations on adjusters who are hired by property owners to handle claims.

The proposed rules deal with "public" adjusters and insurance-company adjusters. They delve into issues such as advertising, advice that adjusters can give to property owners and even how adjusters should deal with seniors.

Nobody kept Alan Hays from voting for the "parent trigger" bill except Alan Hays. Pay no attention to the excuses.