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Senate holds off on school funding until House acts on higher education
The Senate has teed up a compromise school-funding bill designed to help send the Legislature home from its special session....
The Senate has teed up a compromise school-funding bill designed to help send the Legislature home from its special session....
Senate President Joe Negron insisted Thursday, for the second time in as many days, that he emphatically was not party...
The Senate rejected amendments Thursday that might have blocked a meeting of minds with the House on public schools funding...
The Senate’s versions of legislation pumping money into public schools, hospitals, Enterprise Florida, and Visit Florida — and establishing a...
That deal everyone assumed Gov. Rick Scott struck with legislative leaders to ensure a smooth special session? It didn’t exist....
The Senate’s frustration at the cosy new relationship between Gov. Rick Scott and the House showed during debate in the...
The Senate voted Tuesday to override Gov. Rick Scott’s veto of the public schools budget, plus a number of higher...
Gov. Rick Scott signed a nearly $83 billion state budget Friday, and released a list of line item vetoes amounting...
The House released a county-by-county list of budget line items Tuesday, ranging from a $26.8 million loan for a highway...
Of the missteps the Legislature committed this year, the most egregious was a failure to live up to its promises...
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