While Charlie Crist was in Tallahassee shedding crocodile tears for the environment, the Scott administration and water managers were busy rolling up their sleeves to break ground -- again -- on a massive Everglades restoration project that had imploded under the former governor.

Public officials, stakeholders and environmentalists gathered Thursday in South Florida to start the largest project in Gov. Rick Scotts Everglades water-quality plan.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took to the floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday to warn about taxpayers being forced to bail out President Barack Obama's federal health-care law:

"I've got a pen," said President Obama early this week.

"I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions ... that move the ball forward."

"When I can act on my own without Congress, I'm going to do so," the president added Wednesday at North Carolina State.