A resolution from U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch demanding Iran offer more assistance in releasing Robert Levinson, a Florida resident who went missing in Iran almost a decade ago, passed the U.S. House on Monday. 

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., currently running for his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, endorsed U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday. 

THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, February 29, 2016……Calling it a "love note" to the Senate, a key House committee Monday signed off on a sweeping gambling bill that would ratify a $3 billion agreement with the Seminole Tribe and allow pari-mutuels in at least five counties to add slot machines.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is demanding a retraction from a Rubio-affiliated super PAC over new attack ads going after Trump University, a “school” founded by Trump in 2005.

U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., the vice chairman of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee, teamed up with two members of the U.S. Senate at the end of last week to unveil a bill helping disabled veterans have more access to transportation. 

Bilirakis, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., unveiled the Disabled Veterans Access to Space-A Travel Act.

After releasing a Web video last week, on Monday morning, Beruff held a media event at  Vicky’s Bakery and offered voters a biographical introduction. 

Lawmakers are considering a proposal that would use hundreds of millions of dollars in state money to hold local education property taxes steady, as House and Senate negotiators continued working toward an agreement on the budget.

The legislative session has once again become a waiting game.

Lawmakers, reporters and lobbyists spent much of the week waiting for talks between House and Senate leaders to lead to a deal on budget "allocations" --- the area-by-area breakdown on where the state will spend around $80 billion in the year that begins July 1.

Word of the deal finally came late Friday afternoon, leading to another waiting game --- for the meetings of budget conference committees that will decide how to actually spend the money in each area.

The 2016 presidential campaign has already been a somewhat long but definitely wild ride, with dueling debates, bad Photoshop jobs, talks of building walls along the Mexican border and even taking on the Pope. A lot of these political wars have been waged through social media, keeping voters on the edge of their seats, fingers ready to click the refresh button for the next bout of political drama.

Former U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., is taking on new duties at the Dallas-based think tank he led as president and CEO for little more than a year.