Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which crucifixes and all other Catholic symbols that they found offensive had been removed.

With U.S. Rep. Connie Mack preparing to enter the Republican primary field looking to challenge Democrat U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, fellow Senate hopefuls unleashed attacks on the newcomer to the race.

The team behind former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, who is running in the Republican primary, used Halloween to attack Nelson, Mack and former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, who is also running in the Republican primary.

Acknowledging that "the bull's-eye on my back has gotten bigger," GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday denied that he had engaged in sexual harassment when he headed the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

But Cain confirmed that he had been "accused," and branded the allegations reported in a Politico story over the weekend "totally baseless and totally false."

"In my over 40 years of running businesses and corporations, I have never sexually harassed anyone," he told an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Gov. Rick Scott and other elected officials fueled enthusiasm for a new private venture expected to return 550 aerospace jobs to Cape Canaveral and maintain Florida as a vital part of the nations space program.

NASA announced a public-private partnership Monday with Space Florida, the states aerospace economic development agency, to lease the Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility-3 -- the space shuttle's main engine-processing facility -- to Seattle-based Boeing Co.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, the Florida Republican who chairs the Veterans Affairs Committee in the U.S. House, took aim at President Barack Obama on Monday, attacking the presidents handling of the economy.

Citing the We Cant Wait mantra coming from the White House, Miller insisted that the Obama administration is trying to ignore Republicans controlling one chamber of Congress by using executive powers.

Out-of-state money bolstered the fundraising of U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson as he outpaced all of his 2012 Republican challengers in fundraising during the third quarter.

It remains to be seen how the dollar-collection part of the election contest will match up now that Congressman Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, is jumping into the race.

For political experts, Nelsons campaign cash numbers are no surprise, given the senior senators Beltway connections and decades of name recognition.

If the United States government were a family, it would be making $21,700 a year, spending $38,200 and drowning in $142,710 of credit card debt.

The Senate returns from its weeklong recess to conclude debate on the appropriations minibus, an appropriations spending bill funding the departments of Agriculture, Justice, Commerce, State, Transportation, and Housing and Urban development.

Florida Democrats over the weekend took aim at the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP -- which has dominated elections in the Sunshine State in recent years -- drew from the political fringe.

At the state party convention in Orlando, Democrat Bill Nelson, the senior U.S. senator from the Sunshine State, said Saturday he agreed with remarks Vice President Joe Biden made about the state of the Republican Party.