On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., was named as the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate’s Armed Service Committee’s new Cybersecurity Subcommittee. 

Continuing to focus on Israel during his first month in his second term in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., teamed up with U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., to bring out a bill fighting anti-Semitism and opposition to Israel at the United Nations. 

He flabbergasts the Human Race

          By gliding on the water's face

          With ease, celerity and grace;

          But if he ever stopped to think

          Of how he did it, he would sink.

          -- Hilaire Belloc, on the waterbeetle

State universities, colleges and related organizations are spending at least $2 million a year on lobbyists, according to new disclosure records required by the Florida House.