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Efforts to Woo Chris Christie Into the GOP Race Intensify

It's decision time for Chris Christie. If he wants to reverse course and take the presidential plunge, he is going to need to do so quickly as state ballot deadlines approach.

The New Jersey governor wakes up in Missouri Tuesday morning, where he raised some coin for the N.J. GOP. He heads to California later Tuesday and is scheduled to deliver a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, entitled "Real American Exceptionalism."

He will focus his remarks on how the United States' role on the world stage is shaped by "who we are at home," according to a spokeswoman's preview to the New Jersey Star-Ledger.

That's not the usual fare for the Garden State governor, but he's clearly playing to a wider audience tonight.

He'll head to Louisiana later this week to round out his three-state fundraising swing before returning back home.

With so much expected plane time, Christie can give lots of thought to the intensified entreaties coming his way from Republicans who are still actively seeking someone that they can get excited about (not Mitt Romney) -- who can also play to a general election electorate (perhaps not Rick Perry).

The New York Times' Confessore takes a look at the money men wooing Christie :

"In recent months, Christie enthusiasts have lighted up the phone

Several dozen potential Christie backers attended a meeting in July

And while Mr. Christie has so far resisted their entreaties, he is

"Among the prominent former party leaders now pushing hardest for

Former First Lady Barbara Bush even reached out to Christie's wife,

HEALTH CARE AND THE HIGH COURT

The Obama administration's decision to not seek further review of the president's signature health care law by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals may result in the U.S. Supreme Court handing down a final decision in the middle of next year's presidential election.

Most legal observers have long believed that the Supreme Court would have to be the final arbiter on President Obama's health care legislation, and specifically the constitutionality of the individual mandate requiring Americans to buy health insurance or face a fine.

Insurance Rate | 28 Home Insurance Rate Hikes OKed This Summer

State insurance regulators granted more than two dozen home insurance rate hikes this summer trimming from 6 to 34 percent.

They systematic a rate lessen of 4 percent for Cotton States Mutual Insurance, that voiced it’s leaving Florida final year, and decreases of 6 percent for First Floridian Auto and Home Insurance, Phoenix Insurance, Travelers Indemnity and Travelers Indemnity Co. of America.

American Integrity Insurance Co. of Florida, that has 102,091 home insurance policies statewide and 13,575 in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, received 14 percent increases for two variety of homeowner insurance policies it offers. Security First Insurance, with 119,205 policies statewide and 21,025 in South Florida, received a 9 percent enlarge for its homeowners multi-peril policies. And Universal Insurance Co. of North America, that has 81,834 policies statewide and 11,420 in South Florida, received a 12 percent enlarge for its homeowner skill insurance policies.

The Office of Insurance Regulation has received 19 rate travel requests that are tentative from Florida home insurers given June, when you final reported on insurers’ rate enlarge proposals . Only 3 companies draft using a ability from a unconditional skill insurance law transfered this year that speeds up the rate travel routine and the increases operation from 5 percent to 7 percent.

The office will grip rate hearings on 25 percent rate travel proposals from Fidelity Fire Casualty Company and First Protective Insurance Company next week.

The increases granted from June to Aug 11 are summarized below.

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