This week, the U.S. House once again passed a resolution from two Florida representatives urging Germany to “fulfill its moral responsibility to Holocaust survivors and urgently provide the financial resources necessary to ensure that Survivors live in dignity and comfort in their remaining years.” A concurrent resolution, offered by one of Florida’s two senators, passed the upper chamber. 

With the situation growing worse in Venezuela as the economy continues to plummet and food reserves growing short, two congresswomen from Florida brought out a resolution last week expressing their concerns and taking aim at the Maduro regime. 

The dean of the Florida congressional delegation is acting as if she's in a fight. 

With Mike Pence becoming the latest vice presidential hopeful from Indiana and that state hosting an important Senate contest, it’s as good a time as any to ponder the only president the Hoosier State ever produced. 

While Virginia has produced more than its share of presidents, the Old Dominion isn’t exactly known for its vice presidents. Of course now that he’s Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine is hoping to change that. 

With Florida orange crops dropping 16 percent over the past year, Florida’s two senators--Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Marco Rubio--are urging the Senate to help out in the fight against citrus greening. 

By selecting Mike Pence as his running mate, Donald  Trump has once again put an Indiana politician on center stage in a presidential race and the Hoosier State could be producing yet another vice president. 

"Indiana is the mother of vice presidents; home of more second-class men than any other state,” said Thomas Marshall. Having been Woodrow Wilson’s understudy, Marshall, who served as governor of Indiana, knew of what he spoke. 

Think Florida has no connection to the Declaration of Independence? Actually Florida played a large role in the lives of four of the signers, three of whom celebrated the first Independence Day in Florida on July 4, 1781.

As the nation celebrates the 240th anniversary of independence this Fourth of July weekend, Floridians can look back at the strange and almost entirely forgotten role their state played in the American Revolution.

The American Revolution inspired independence movements across the globe from France to South America to the outbreaks that startled Europe in the late 1840s. It’s no coincidence that Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze painted his iconic “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in the aftermath of the 1848 revolutions.