U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, has announced he will seek to represent the proposed agricultural district that would be broken off his current seat instead of running for the Treasure Coast-dominated seat.
The people of this district have always been good to me, and I look forward to representing this region for another two years, Rooney stated in a release.
Rooney is expected to move to the Charlotte area.
The move opens up the Treasure Coast for a run by U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation.
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Rep. John Mica is looking for a new political home as a congressional remap chipped off chunks of the veteran lawmaker's Central Florida district.
Mica's choice appears to boil down to the 6th Congressional District, a coastal district extending northward to just below Jacksonville, or the 7th Congressional District, centered largely in Seminole County.
A bill some have called a cornerstone of the social conservative agenda this session, allowing public school students to run their own prayer sessions at organized events, has been expanded to include all grades.
The Senate will vote on the bill Wednesday.
The last-minute change introduced Tuesday on the Senate floor also removes the term noncompulsory from the initial bill.
Former Gov. Charlie Crist -- who left the Republican party in 2010 after being overtaken in the U.S. Senate primary by Marco Rubio to continue his bid with no party affiliation -- told Chuck Todd of MSNBC that he would be open to backing President Barack Obama in November and would consider running for office down the road as a Democrat.
First Read has the former governors answer when asked if he was thinking about backing Obama:
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With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandating that religious organizations provide insurance coverage for birth control under the federal health-care law that President Barack Obama signed, Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio introduced a measure allowing church-affiliated organizations the ability to opt out on grounds of religious liberty and right of conscience. Rubio introduced the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012 on Tuesday. Staffers told Sunshine State News they are working on securing Senate co-sponsors and backers in the U.S. House.
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From his perch on the U.S. House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw took aim at planned cuts to the military budget.
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The following is Associated Industries of Florida President and CEO Tom Feeney's take on last week's legislative subcommittee defeat of the pro-business "bad-faith" reforms:
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Absentee ballots were on track to hit a Florida Republican presidential primary record Tuesday -- and that could be good news for Mitt Romney.
The 630,000 absentee ballots received before the weekend will likely swell to nearly 700,000 during final counting today, said Randy Nielsen, a GOP political consultant.
After all the votes are tallied, some 2 million ballots are expected to be cast in the presidential preference primary, compared with the 1.5 million votes in the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary.
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The team behind former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich made their final case to voters in the Sunshine State on Tuesday, the day of the Florida Republican presidential primary.
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Newspapers already struggling for classified ad revenue fended off an attempt to reduce the cash stream from foreclosure legal notices.
The House Civil Justice Subcommittee narrowly rejected a bill that would have allowed those required to publish a foreclosure notice the option to do so on an Internet site instead of posting the legal notice in a newspaper.
Rep. Richard Steinberg, D-Miami Beach, said requiring the notices in newspapers is a public benefit.
