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Associated PressFebruary 28, 2016

Florida legislators are moving quickly to bridge their differences on a roughly $80 billion state budget. Legislators met in the Capitol over the weekend to work out spending on key areas such as education, transportation and health care. Legislative leaders Friday reached a broad budget deal regarding tax cuts and overall spending. Now budget committees […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterJanuary 26, 2016

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The Republican-led state House rejected more than a dozen amendments — all of which were sponsored by House Democrats — to a proposal aimed at regulating hydraulic fracturing. House Democrats put forth at least 20 amendments to the bill (HB 191). The changes included requiring drillers to submit water to the Department of Environmental every […]

Associated PressSeptember 13, 2015

A judge is set to hold a trial later this month to sort out the jumbled mess in Florida’s political landscape over the mapping of state congressional districts. Judge Terry Lewis agreed Friday to give attorneys involved in a three-year legal battle over Florida’s congressional districts until Monday to submit proposed maps. The Florida Supreme […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 2, 2015

Florida has tied with Iowa for having the 10th-best-funded state pension system in the country, according to a recent report by Employee Benefit Adviser. The Florida Retirement System is 81 percent funded, the report said, though the survey noted it used figures from 2013. That number differs from the State Board of Administration, which manages the […]

Gary FineoutJune 23, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday ended the state’s biggest budget crisis in more than two decades by signing a more than $78 billion budget into law, but he may have created another divide with some of his fellow Republicans. Scott signed the budget just days after the Florida Legislature approved it during an unusual June […]

Daniel TilsonMay 21, 2015

Conservative Florida Republicans of good conscience, unite! Unite in demanding your local state representatives in the Florida House be given the opportunity to publicly vote Aye or Nay on a Senate plan to provide health insurance coverage to more than 800,000 uninsured Floridians stuck in the “Florida Coverage Gap.” Hey, you’ve got nothing to lose […]

Daniel TilsonApril 30, 2015

So, conservative extremists disabled our Florida Legislature this week. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli rocked the ship of state and shocked many of his GOP colleagues when he abruptly adjourned the 2015 session several days early. This, with a state budget and much important legislative work still undone. This, because of an iron-clad commitment by Gov. […]

Daniel TilsonApril 28, 2015

With state representatives like these, who needs enemies? With nearly four days left in the Florida Legislature’s regular session, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli unexpectedly gathered up all his “Stand Firm” post-it notes, lobbyist business cards and ALEC issues briefings, then suddenly called the session quits and sent everybody home. The political class in Tallahassee likes […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 27, 2015

Rep. Richard Corcoran, the House budget chief who has urged House members to go to “war” over health care, made it clear Monday: No means no when it comes to Medicaid expansion. Corcoran, who took to Twitter this past weekend to vent his frustration over the current health care impasse that has bogged down this […]

Phil AmmannMarch 23, 2015

Both the Florida House and Senate released spending plans for the upcoming fiscal year, providing funding for everything from education and transportation to the newly passed Amendment 1 land-conservation measure. Beyond that, however, the two budgets could not be further apart; almost $5 billion, to be exact. Bill Day’s latest takes aim at this fiscal […]

Tag: House Republicans

Florida lawmakers moving quickly to wrap up budget talks

House Republicans reject amendments to fracking bill sponsored by Democrats

Monday is deadline for parties in redistricting trial to submit proposed maps

Florida ranked No. 10 among states with “best-funded” state pensions

Gov. Rick Scott signs state budget in private, averts government shutdown

Daniel Tilson: Can grassroots Republicans help solve Florida’s healthcare crisis?

Daniel Tilson: Florida should shun radicalism of Gov. Scott, House Republicans

Daniel Tilson: Florida House Republicans flip us all the bird and fly home

Richard Corcoran: No means no on Medicaid expansion

Bill Day’s latest: The widening budget gap over Medicaid expansion