Florida Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns and Congressman Jim Matheson, D-Utah, want to know what the National Football League and the League's Players Association are doing to combat human growth hormones (HGH) in their sport.

The pair teamed up to send a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Players Association Director DeMaurice Smith demanding an answer. The representatives also insisted that Congress should keep out over continued negotiations between NFL owners and players -- a boiling pot that threatens to impact the 2011-12 football season.

In 1918, the United States proved militarily decisive in the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany and emerged as first power on earth.

Regulators from Florida and other states hammered insurance executives Thursday with questions about whether companies are trying hard enough to pay life-insurance claims.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty is leading a multistate probe that he said could involve more than $1 billion in money owed. Executives from MetLife and Nationwide insurance companies testified under oath during a hearing Thursday -- but McCarty said the probe involves all of the nations largest life insurers.

While Gov. Rick Scott looks to trim the $69.7 billion state budget through line-item vetoes, lawmakers put him -- and Florida taxpayers -- in a fiscal box with one big-ticket item: SunRail.

Scott has been weighing a decision on the $1.2 billion commuter train project for months. Having rejected $2.4 billion in federal funds for a proposed high-speed rail venture earlier this year, SunRail appeared ripe for derailment as well.

Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 1355 into law Thursday afternoon -- an elections bill Democrats see as crucial to their 2012 get-out-the-vote efforts in Florida and one that has already been the subject of a lawsuit.

Democrats have derided HB 1355, which passed through the Legislature in party-line votes, as a naked partisan attack aimed at disenfranchising many voters throughout the state who historically lean Democratic.

Two Florida Republicans in Congress are calling out the White House, urging the Obama administration to get cracking on submitting free-trade agreements to Colombia and Panama.

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, is spending the week leading a congressional delegation that is visiting those two Latin American nations and Mexico. Mack met with both Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli and renewed his call for the White House to send the two trade agreements to Congress.

"My wish? I would love for the economy to make a speedy recovery for the sake of every working Floridian and American."