Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continues to keep the door open to jumping in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Palin said during an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday that she could afford to wait a few more weeks and could make a final decision in either August or September. While surging U.S. Rep.

Republican U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis is taking aim at the Obama administration, sending letters to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson this week. Bilirakis asked about two ATF operations which the congressman maintains are sending firearms to criminal organizations. Bilirakis noted that a Border Patrol agent was killed by weapons traced to one of the projects while the other was sending weapons to MS-13, a gang based in Honduras ...

From his perch on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw looked to reduce the size and scope of the federal government this week by trimming some fat from Congress itself.

Crenshaw, a former president of the Florida Senate who has represented parts of the First Coast and the northern part of the state since first being elected to Congress back in 2000, used his position as chairman of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee to cut congressional expenses.

Since entering the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in June, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota has surged in national polls and surveys of key states -- and a new poll has her leading the pack in Iowa, home of the first caucus. Previous polls had shown Romney, who placed second in the caucus when he ran in 2008, ahead of the field in Iowa.

A new poll unveiled on Sunday, commissioned by TheIowaRepublican.com and taken by Voter/Consumer Research, reveals that Bachmann has moved ahead of former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts in the Hawkeye State.