It's long been said that Washington, D.C., is recession proof. It certainly has the robust federal employment listings to prove it.

Impervious to shifting political winds, the big government job machine just keeps lumbering along.

A survey by The Daily Caller found more than 1,000 federal openings this month alone in the D.C. area.

On Thursday morning, at a school in Jacksonville, Gov. Rick Scott signed into law SB 736 --legislation that reforms the way teachers are paid in the state of Florida. A similar measure, SB 6, passed the Legislature in 2010 but was vetoed by then-Gov. Charlie Crist.

The new law reforms teacher pay to rely on performance and assessments instead of seniority. The new law places new teachers on annual contracts as opposed to having tenure and makes half of a teachers evaluation reliant on assessments in a four-tiered system.