Businessman Craig Miller, who last week entered the Republican primary to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, announced Thursday that he is taking a page out of the old Bob Graham playbook and will be holding Miller on Main Street events.

The first one is scheduled at a pizza parlor in Winter Park next week -- a fitting location for Miller, who once served as CEO of the Uno Restaurant chain best known for its Chicago-style pizza.

Two Florida Republicans -- U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and U.S. Rep. Connie Mack -- seek to make major cuts and changes to American international policy with the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012, which they pushed through the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the committee, introduced the bill whichauthorizes almost $6.5 billion less than what President Barack Obama originally proposed.

Lifted by gains in the stock market, the Florida Retirement System pension plan gained $19 billion in the fiscal year that ended on June 30.

That is a gain of 22 percent, the biggest in 25 years, reports the State Board of Administration, and larger than the 14 percent gain from last year. The total value of the pension plan has soared to $128.4 billion.

The state pension plan performed better than its benchmark, a goal of 21.7 percent, and better than many of its peers that have also reported returns for the fiscal year.