Floridas much-traveled governor is expected to focus on Asia for at least one trade mission in 2013.

With trade missions to Spain and Colombia, along with a summer trade exhibition planned for England in the works for this year, Gov. Rick Scott may be the states first governor to visit Japan and South Korea since former Gov. Lawton Chiles in 1997.

You can rest assured that Florida will become much more active in Korea in the years to come, Manny Mencia, Enterprise Florida's senior vice president of international business development, said Tuesday.

Last week, six U.S. senators, including John McCain, R-Ariz., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., endorsed draft legislation that would block the automatic defense cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011 for fiscal year 2013.

A Federal Aviation Administration bill curbing costly airline-ticket subsidies broke through a four-year legislative logjam and won final congressional approval Monday.

The measure, sponsored by House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica, was approved by the Senate, 75-20. Sens. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., voted with the majority.

After Democrats failed for four years to pass a long-term bill, this measure, which sets the nations aviation policy and programs and reforms FAA, has finally passed, said Mica, R-Orlando.

Having condemned the Citizens United decision and having bashed super PACs, President Barack Obama has flipped on the matter as his campaign manager gave a thumbs up to super PACs that will support the Democrat incumbent in the 2012 election.

The stakes are too important to play by two different sets of rules, Jim Messina, Obamas campaign manager, wrote to supporters late on Monday. If we fail to act, we concede this election to a small group of powerful people intent on removing the president at any cost.

From time to time some state agency, or some person at an agency, doesn't seem to take seriously what someone in the Legislature, maybe a chairman of a committee, wants the agency to do.

Agency officials blow off the concerns of some committee chairmen at their peril.

Gov. Mitt Romney's statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward endorsing his coronation as the GOP's nominee for president -- with 90 percent of the delegates still not yet chosen -- have been trying to sweep his statement under the rug.

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Following four foreign missions last year, and with trips in the works for Spain and the United Kingdom, Enterprise Florida is now setting up plans for a Gov. Rick Scott-led trade mission to Colombia, one of the states largest trading partners.

And while no formal announcement for the end-of-year trip to South America has been made, word of the endeavor couldnt be timelier.

A growing nationwide trend toward toll roads could see more of them rolling out in Florida.

Under a new federal program that allows selected interstate highways to be reconstructed with tolls, Virginia will add tolls along the I-95 corridor and Missouri will toll its stretch of I-70.

Gov. Rick Scott hailed the extension of toll lanes on I-95 into Broward County last year, saying the move benefits all motorists.

While he has primarily focused his fire on Newt Gingrich instead of the other GOP candidates, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is starting to take aim at another target -- Rick Santorum.

Santorum is looking to upend front-runner Romney on Tuesday. The two of them are the only candidates on the ballot in Missouri which holds its primary on Tuesday.