Who says lawmakers never address thorny issues in an election year?

Whether any of the proposals that ate up time and energy this week are like

At least two of three Florida City commissioners claim they did not endorse CD 26 candidate Annette Taddeo -- or any candidate -- even though Taddeo's campaign issued a press release in English and Spanish saying they did.

Student score reports for the Florida Standards Assessment just got a new ‘do.

U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., part of the congressional leadership as senior deputy majority whip, filed a resolution censuring President Barack Obama over his failure to implement the Visa Waiver Program Improvement Act.

House and Senate leaders will roll out gambling bills Friday that would allow the Seminole Tribe to add craps and roulette at its casinos, potentially do away with dog racing and most horse racing and open the door for slot machines in Palm Beach County

Late Thursday, Senate Regulated Industries Chairman Rob Bradley and his House counterpart, Regulatory Affairs Chairman Jose Felix Diaz, were working on details in the two proposals, slated for votes next week in both committees.

If there’s a gun issue in front of Florida lawmakers, Marion Hammer will be there to testify. 

Presidential candidates rarely speak of it except when specifically asked, but make no mistake, marijuana policy is a player in the agenda of the 2016 presidential election campaign.

With the Super Bowl, the biggest stage for national marketing, looming on Sunday, two South Florida congressional representatives want the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to study deceptive advertising, warning of harm to consumers due to idealized body images. 

On Thursday, Gov. Rick Scott and Florida Surgeon General Dr. John Armstrong urged the  federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to take precautions as Florida readies to face the Zika virus.
 
With news emerging that there were three more cases of Zika in the Sunshine State, Scott asked Armstrong to extend a public health emergency to Broward County in addition to the ones declared in Hillsborough, Lee, Miami-Dade and Santa Rosa counties on Wednesday. Scott stressed that the three new cases were all travel related and did not involve pregnant women. 

On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., took to the Senate floor to warn his fellow senators that he would do all he could to oppose a proposal from U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., to end the no-drilling zone extending at least 125 miles off of the Florida coast into the Gulf of Mexico. Nelson said the following in his remarks: