Senate

Florida Senate President Ben Albritton was hospitalized overnight Sunday with a blood clot in his lung, his office announced Monday morning. The Wauchula Republican, now in “good spirits,” began experiencing chest pains Sunday morning. He was taken to the emergency room at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, where physicians discovered a small blood clot in his lung.

The Florida Republican senator is leading a bipartisan effort in the Senate to crack down on financial scams targeting older Americans with a bill aimed at equipping local and state law enforcement with more advanced tools and resources to track down scammers.

The state Senate's GOP-controlled Committee on Health Policy approved the measure, while a companion House bill also cleared its first committee hearing.

A bill designed to stem efforts that have increased during the past few years to remove monuments and markers has started to advance in the Florida Senate.

The Florida House approved the measure that would give Gov. DeSantis the authority to appoint the district's Board of Supervisors. The Senate will vote on Friday.

The Florida Senate has approved sweeping legislation that would overhaul the state’s property insurance system, which has struggled due to insolvencies, high costs and major storms.

Warnock's win now gives Democrats firm control of the Senate and makes life easier for them in a number of ways --among them: a cushion in trying to pass bills and assured committee control.

Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona come into focus in final days. Plus: where things stand in seven other Senate contests.

Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Val Demings will face off in a high-stakes debate Tuesday night as one of the country's marquee congressional races heads into the final weeks of the 2022 midterm election.

The field of the top 10 races most likely to flip finds Republicans making serious runs at five Democratic-controlled seats and Democrats contending in the other five.

Recent events are giving Democrats hope of retaining the 50-50 Senate, which they narrowly control with the vice president casting tie-breaking votes.

The bill no longer would force generations of veterans to prove that their illness was caused by toxic exposures suffered in the military in order to get VA coverage.