Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio pled with supporters to give him a little more time to answer Facebook messages -- via his Twitter page.

Rubio tweeted Monday:

Asking my facebook friends who have sent a message to me to be patient with me. They are backed up and I have not had chance to get to them.

Battle for the future of America - S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford (R)
Don't drive the economy off a cliff - Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.)
@NewtGingrich @SAnuzis - Markos Moulitsas (kos)
Secretary Clinton at Barnard - DipNote (State Department)
Help me retire Chris Dodd - Former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.)
Props to me - Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.)
Just flew over the U.S.! - Mike Massimino (NASA)
Let the apology countdown begin - Matthew Yglesias
Thanks to the PA Rural Electric Ass'n - Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.)
Beginning cap & trade markup - Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)

Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) informs the twittersphere of the newest addition to his (large) family:

BuckMcKeon My daughter, Tricia, and her husband David just had a baby boy, Everhett Joseph Logan. This marks Patricia's and my 30th grandchild!

How does he remember all of their names?

Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) is making his way to work, and it's quite the commute.

Jones tweeted Monday that he's driving up to Washington for his work in Congress this week:

Driving up to Washington, DC for a busy week of hearings, votes and meetings.... As of today your share of the national debt is $36,791.18

Though we can't say for sure whether or not he was in his district over the weekend, if Jones is driving from his Farmville, N.C. residence, then he's got quite the drive ahead of him.

By eschewing flying, Jones has almost a 4.5 hour drive ahead of him, according to Google Maps.


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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) lamented Monday that the College Board -- the company that administers the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) tests for high schoolers -- will drop Latin literature from its language testing curriculum.

Issa tweeted a link to an op-ed in last Thursday's Washington Post in which students at the all-boys prep school St. Anselm's in D.C. declaimed the end of the AP Latin Lit exam.

Issa tweeted Monday:

"Et tu, College Board?" Ab actu ad posse valet illatio. http://bit.ly/vjhOI Another pillar of education totters.

Google tells us that the Latin phrase in Issa's post means, "From the past one can infer the future," in English.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) was sure to welcome some fellow Ohioans who joined Twitter recently with a welcome tweet on his own feed.

Ryan tweeted Monday:

Excited to see @joeschiavoni and @Ted_Strickland on Twitter.

Strickland, of course, is the governor of the swing state, while Schiavoni is a state senator from Youngstown.

Strickland's first tweet came last Tuesday, May 12, when he endorsed a candidate for state auditor. The governor's most recent tweet came Saturday:

spoke at the Race for the Cure this morning. It was incredibly moving to see such strength and courage from families and survivors.

I'm going skydiving! - Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.)
Culberson's relaxing Saturday - Rep. John Culberson (R-Tex.)
Thoughts on a slow news day - Ana Marie Cox (Air America)
Twitter, Facebook, and the 1st amendment - Gov. Rick Perry (R-Tex.)
Stay classy, Los Angeles - Howard Kurtz (Washington Post)
The GOP youth vote plan - Markos Moulitsas
The Terminator goes to church - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.)
Newt Gingrich is old news - Meghan McCain

Larry King has stumbled across a mystery:

kingsthings in baseball... why 4 balls and 3 strikes??

King is a sparse but entertaining tweeter. One of his previous gems:

kingsthings why is twitter broken down twice a day? makes me want to go back to a cup & string!

Larry--there's a middle ground!

CBS correspondent Mark Knoller tweets a scene from the Notre Dame commencement:

markknoller http://twitpic.com/5degc - Here's the graduating Notre Dame student with the Washington Monument on his mortarboard.

Here's the pic: