Gov. Rick Scott signed Florida’s newest tax-cut package into law Wednesday. Scott has said the package adds up to $1 billion in tax cuts over the next two years.

The U.S. House moved on the “Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act" from U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-NC, this week with the Florida delegation firmly behind it. 

After eight terms in Congress, U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., announced he would not seek reelection. 

Two members of the Florida congressional delegation scored a win on Tuesday as their bill to safeguard veterans against fraud passed the U.S. House without opposition. 

U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., brought out the “Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act” back in March. U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., was also a co-sponsor of the bill. The House passed the bill 411-0 on Tuesday. 

The drama continued between Gov. Rick Scott and Broward Health this week, with a Broward Circuit Court judge ruling Monday that the governor overstepped his authority when he used an executive order and suspended Broward Health chairman David Di Pietro for alleged “malfeasance.”

Scott suspended Di Pietro, who was appointed to the board in 2011, and Commissioner Darryl Wright after Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel expressed “grave concerns” that board members might be interfering with her investigation on all of Broward Health’s contracts since July 2012. 

The scene outside Gov. Rick Scott's office Tuesday may have been even more acrimonious than the alimony bill awaiting his action.

Men, women and a handful of children crammed into a waiting room, some bearing posters and balloons, attempting to bully each other into changing their positions on one of the legislative session's most controversial measures, a proposal that would overhaul the state's alimony laws and change the way judges decide child time-sharing arrangements.

But after a two-hour standoff, the attempts at conversion were futile.

Florida orange industry got some good news as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) revised its forecast on Tuesday . 

The chairman of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., brought out a bill this week helping veterans who lose their abilities to have children due to wounds. 

Miller, who is retiring from Congress, unveiled the bill on Monday. The proposal would help “veterans who have suffered a traumatic injury to their reproductive organs and who, as a result, cannot have children” with as much as $20,000 “which could be used at the veteran’s discretion, including for adoption fees or other personal expenses.”

The process of choosing a running mate for the Republican ticket has begun even as the GOP remains uncertain over who will be its standard bearer in this years election. 

Businessman Donald Trump, currently in the lead in the delegate count, was asked by USA Today if he could select former primary rivals like U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. and Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wisc., as his understudy. The USA Today interview ran Monday. 

Florida Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, announced on Tuesday morning that he was backing Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera to take U.S Sen. Marco Rubio’s, R-Fla., place in the Senate. Rubio is not running for a second term.