On Thursday, in a party lines vote, the U.S. House passed a measure cutting off federal funds from the U.S. Department of Justice to states and cities that refuse to enforce current immigration laws. 

The “Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act” from U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., R-Calif., passed the House on 241-179 votes. Six Democrats joined the Republican majority in supporting the measure while five Republicans voted against it. 

The Republican primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the Senate in 2016 is on with the leading candidates trying to claim the right-of-center ground. 

Having entered the race earlier in the week, U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., tried to get his conservative credentials in order on Thursday with a new video. In the video, Jolly insisted he is a conservative. National conservative groups, many of which are backing U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., in the primary, have been firing away at Jolly on a host of fronts including his support of same-sex marriage. 

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to hold a commanding lead in the Florida Democratic presidential primary, a new poll shows. 

Mason-Dixon unveiled a new poll on Friday which has Clinton, who leads all of the national polls, far out in front of her potential Democratic rivals. Clinton pulls a majority -- 58 percent --  of those surveyed. 

In a memo accompanying the poll, Brad Coker of Mason-Dixon insisted she was “still far ahead of the primary field.”

A new poll shows businessman Donald Trump is running worse in Florida than at the national level after his comments about U.S. Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., service in the Vietnam War while former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., is the favorite son of the Sunshine State.  

Mason-Dixon released a poll of the Republican presidential primary  in Florida on Friday showing Bush ahead with 28 percent. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., takes second with 16 percent. Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., places third with 13 percent followed by Trump with 11 percent. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi is dropping her opposition to Gov. Rick Scott's desired leader of the Department of Environmental Protection.
 
Bondi's office announced Thursday that she will support Interim DEP Secretary Jon Steverson at the Aug. 5 Cabinet meeting.

U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., wants to make sure the Army can transfer military skills to the workforce, and to that end he gathered congressmen, state lawmakers, trade certification groups and private businessmen to discuss how to make it happen. Among the state lawmakers Jolly invited to participate in a congressional delegation trip to Fort Lee, Va., last week were Reps. Jimmie Smith, R-Inverness, and Larry Ahearn, R-Seminole. 

When it comes to campaign cash, voters care more about disclosures than campaign donation restrictions, according to a new poll.

In a type of case it said has become increasingly common, a South Florida appeals court Wednesday rejected a legal-dependency request for a Guatemalan teen who entered the United States as an undocumented immigrant.

The ruling by the 4th District Court of Appeal in a Palm Beach County case came a week after another appeals court rejected similar dependency requests for teens from El Salvador and Honduras.

After two years of representation, workers at the Orlando-based Golf Channel say they are fed up and want out of their union.

The worker who is initiating this process is Golf Channel camera operator John Gallagher. Gallagher says he and his fellow co-workers are tired of the promises made by the union that they haven’t delivered.

In an exclusive interview with Sunshine State News, Gallagher said it all began five to six years ago when camera operators and technicians who produce golf tournaments and other programming for the channel pushed to have a union.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is in trouble in three swing states, according to several polls released Wednesday from Quinnipiac University. The polls found Clinton trailing behind three top Republican primary contenders for the presidency, including two nominees from Florida: former Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.