January 4, 2013 - 6:00pm

Five Florida Republicans were among the 85 House GOP members who sided with Democrats on Tuesday to approve Senate Bill 8, which averts, for now, $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts commonly called the fiscal cliff.
Voting in support, U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami, wrote that the bill has its flaws but that he supported the permanent cuts offered.