After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton

U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., will stay as the ranking Democrat on the House Committee of Veterans Affairs despite drawing fire from veterans groups. With the support of U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Brown dispatched a challenge from U.S. Rep. Tim Waltz, D-Minn.

A lone gunman made his way through a crowded library at Florida State University early Thursday morning, injuring three people before being shot and killed by campus police. The gunman has not been identified. According to Tallahassee Police Department spokesperson David Northway, the shooter walked inside the entrance to FSUs crowded Strozier Library around 12:30 a.m. and opened fireon people in the library. Three victims injured in the incident were all students.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continues to go to bat for U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., as he looks to take down U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. In Louisiana, Bill Cassidy is in a runoff with liberal Senator Mary Landrieu, Rubio wrote supporters of his Reclaim America PAC on Wednesday. National Democrats need Landrieu to win, or their hopes to stop our plan to repeal and replace Obamacare will take a huge hit. So I'm hitting the ground this week with Bill Cassidy. I'll be in Louisiana helping him get out the early vote and making sure we win this runoff.

On Wednesday, after two Palestinian terrorists attacked a synagogue in Jerusalem, killing four rabbis, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chairwoman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, took to the House floor. In her speech, Ros-Lehtinen called for ending federal taxpayer dollars going to the Palestinian Authority and groups with ties to Hamas.