On Tuesday, the U.S. House passed a proposal from two Florida  ensuring  taxpayers aren’t stuck with the bill when foreign oil spills move into American waters.

The Florida Chamber of Commerce is celebrating a big birthday in 2016, commemorating 100 years of representing businesses and the economy in the Sunshine State.

U.S. Reps. David Jolly, R-Indian Shores, and Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, faced off in their first debate Monday evening, duking it out on their paths to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in Washington next year.

Gambling regulators and a tiny horse track in Hamilton County are at odds over whether a series of "flag drop" races two summers ago, which one former state official described as "a sham," constituted legitimate horse races.

Now it's up to an administrative law judge to decide whether Hamilton Downs Horsetrack should be punished for the races, in which some horses stopped midway down a dirt track, others threw their riders off and even more refused to start running when a red rag was waved.

Gov. Rick Scott ceremonially signed a bill to help families of law enforcement employees and first responders killed in the line of duty on Monday in Orlando.

The bill, SB 7012, filed by Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, and co-sponsored by Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, would provide the beneficiary or family member the fallen officer’s monthly salary for life. The benefits would apply to Florida’s Special Risk class, which includes firemen, correctional officers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, probation officers and other employees whose jobs might put them at risk.

The House is expected to vote on a proposal Tuesday sponsored by a pair of Floridians that would end the federal government’s monopoly on flood insurance by expanding private insurance options. 

In an interview Sunday with Chuck Todd on NBC News' "Meet the Press," former Florida Gov. and Sen. Bob Graham told millions of viewers that President Obama will decide by June whether to declassify the 28 pages in a congressional inquiry on 9/11 that raise questions about Saudi financial support to the hijackers in the United States prior to the terrorist attacks.

Donald Trump may have won the Florida primary, but the work isn’t over for presidential hopefuls in the Sunshine State. Florida Republicans are only a few weeks away from selecting the 99 delegates who will represent them at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July, but the delegates this year have hardly been set in stone.

Ever since the departure of the Pork Chop Gang --- a cadre of North Florida lawmakers who ruled state government through the middle part of the 20th Century --- the northern reaches of the state have sometimes seemed like second-tier parts of Florida.

Florida’s Latino voters view immigration as one of the top issues for Congress and the President, according to a recent poll.