Rep. Bill Posey challenged Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Schapiro over what he called the agency's "decade of indifference or ineptitude" in the Bernie Madoff investigation.

Demanding to know what happened to up to 50 departed SEC investigators and examiners, Posey, R-Rockledge, likened the situation to "letting a pedophile slink out of a neighborhood and saying everything is OK.

"Stealing is still stealing, even if the government is in on the deal," Posey said.

Former Rep. Loranne Ausley, the Democratic candidate for state CFO, is using the short special session on Tuesday to take aim at her Republican opponent -- Senate President Jeff Atwater, R-North Palm Beach.

This week, we witnessed a complete failure of leadership and a complete waste of taxpayer dollars, said Ausley. The gavel-and-go strategy was nothing more than a charade and an attempt to play partisan political games without addressing the real problems facing real families and real businesses who are hurting as a result of the spill.

U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, the Republican candidate for Floridas next commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, announced he brought in more than $205,000 in the second quarter of 2010. While the Putnam team did not say how much of the second quarter was in-kind donations, Putnam has assembled an impressive war chest -- with more than $1.3 million on hand.