U.S.? ?Rep.? ?Michele Bachmann,? ?R-Minn.,? ?announced at the end of May that she will not run for another term in Congress -- but opened the door to running for other offices,? ?including another bid for the presidency.?

Bachmann appeared on Sean Hannitys show on Fox News on Thursday in her first interview since announcing she would be leaving Congress in? ?2014.? ?While she slammed President Barack Obama and looked back at her time in Congress,? ?Bachmann insisted she would remain active in public life.?

Congressman Dan Webster, R-Fla., has a reputation of being something of a slow starter. When he challenged Alan Grayson back in the 2010 election cycle, after much pondering, Webster only entered the race in April 2010.

But as he gears up for a third term in Congress, Webster is taking no chances and has started his re-election efforts early. Webster sent out a fundraising appeal to supporters on Friday in which he bashed the IRS on Friday.

While most eyes in the Big Bend were on Tropical Storm Andrea, GOP political operatives in the region were busy defining congressional hopeful Gwen Graham as an all-out liberal Democrat, as far to the left as Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean.

Graham, in pursuit of the Democratic nomination and ultimately Republican Steve Southerland's District 2 congressional seat,continues to portray herself as a moderate Graham Democrat, like her famous father.

With the U.S. Supreme Court set to release a first-time ruling later this month on same-sex marriage, the stage is set for it to be a major issue in the 2016 presidential race.

Unlike some of his fellow Florida Republicans, U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw is playing it cool when it comes to investigating the scandals that are increasingly plaguing the Obama administration.

National Democrats plan to defend President Barack Obamas federal health-care law as a matter of concerted party strategy in 2014, but they might as well know: Florida Republicans will welcome it.

Reports surfaced on Tuesday that Democrats across the nation are increasingly going to bat for the health-care law, which remains controversial three years after it was first passed.