This past week the Senate continued debating the Federal Aviation Administation bill but mostly it was in recess while chamber Democrats conducted their legislative agenda retreat in Charlottesville, Va.

All eyes will be on Washington this weekend when the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meets and conducts its Republican presidential nomination straw poll.

Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled the Obama administration’s plan to spend $53 billion in the next six years, which the administration argues will help set the stage for the promise the president made in his State of the Union address to have 80 percent of Americans connected by high-speed rail in the next 25 years.

The Senate will resume with the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill for the second week after conducting a few votes last week regarding the health care repeal issue.

Most campaign rhetoric and political punditry is underpinned by an assumption that perfect solutions are possible, if only people would have the good sense to adopt the candidate's or the pundit's course of action. Alas, that is not always so.

It was no tempest in a teapot this week when a Pensacola judge stirred the national debate about the federal health care law by ruling that it was not only unconstitutional to require people to buy insurance, but that the entire health care law violates the nation’s founding document.

A poll released by Quinnipiac University Thursday showed that Florida will be in the front lines in the 2012 political wars when both President Barak Obama and Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson face challenges for re-election.

Old politicians never go away, they just become political "experts."

While tea party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina continues to ponder making a run at the Republican presidential nomination, his competitors are keeping tabs on what he does. His home state will be a crucial primary battle.

On Wednesday, the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate rejected Republican efforts to push a measure repealing the federal health care law enacted in 2010 with the backing of President Barack Obama. The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a repeal measure last week.

Leaders of the Florida House weighed in late Monday to cheer federal Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling that the President Barack Obama-inspired health care law is unconstitutional.

As soon as federal Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court in Pensacola struck down the federal health care law backed by President Barack Obama as unconstitutional -- and Florida again became the political center of attention -- the Sunshine State’s congressional delegation broke on party lines in their reaction to the decision.