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Christine Jordan SextonJune 8, 2015

Chagrined at the levels of funding allocated in the proposed 2015-16 budget Enterprise Florida held a conference call early Monday morning asked members of its executive committee to contact budget conferees and press for more money. According to EFI staff there is $30 million in the Senate budget and $5 million for marketing or EFI […]

Diane RobertsJune 7, 2015

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – The not-remotely-special special session limps along, costing taxpayers about $75,000 a day. The bars in Tallahassee are making out pretty well. The rest of us, not so much. The Senate wants to expand Medicaid, but can’t call it “Medicaid,” because, you know, Obama. The House won’t call it anything other than “Medicaid!” […]

Ryan RayJune 7, 2015

Two $10 million line items were at issue in Sunday’s meeting of Transportation & Economic Development budget conference panel, the third this weekend as lawmakers from both chambers of the Legislature sit down to hash out their considerable budget differences. The controversial public-private “All Aboard Florida” rail plan favored by Gov. Rick Scott made progress in […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 6, 2015

After making quick progress early on Saturday, legislative health care budget writers announced at 4 p.m. they won’t meet again until Sunday. House and Senate legislative leaders have agreed to pour $400 million in recurring general revenue into hospitals in an attempt to absorb the loss of $1 billion in supplemental Medicaid funding known as […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 5, 2015

Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera makes $124,000 a year. Friday afternoon, the Florida Democratic Party posed a question: What has CLC done lately to earn six figures? Monday, he “toured” Florida’s Department of Revenue. Tuesday, he wore out his hands, according to the Florida Democrats, applauding “at Rick Scott‘s Republican presidential campaign pageant in Orlando.” But he […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 5, 2015

The Florida Senate was in session for less than five minutes on Friday before adjourning. Senate President Andy Gardiner announced that the House and Senate had agreed to budget allocations and that the two chambers would begin hammering out the differences in the proposed spending plans for the 2015-16 fiscal year beginning at 9 a.m. […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 5, 2015

A federal court in Pensacola has scheduled a hearing on Gov. Rick Scott‘s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and preliminary injunction to require the federal government to keep Low Income Pool funding at more than $2 billion. The hearing in Scott v. Department of Health and Human Services is scheduled […]

Associated PressJune 5, 2015

House Republicans appeared ready to reject the Senate’s plan on Medicaid, arguing Thursday that it is essentially an expansion that relies on money from the president’s health care overhaul. During a tense 2 1/2 hours of questions, House Republicans agreed the Senate plan was still a government entitlement program for “able-bodied adults” that would increase […]

Jac VerSteegJune 3, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday vetoed a law – House Bill 1087 – that would have created protections for Florida homeowners who have insurance from Citizens, the state-run insurer of last resort. Scott said he thought the bill would hinder efforts to depopulate Citizens. But from my experience, he got things exactly backwards. Specifically, the […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 3, 2015

It was not unanimous but the Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a bill off the floor to use Medicaid funding under the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, to expand access to health care for low income uninsured Floridians. Passed by a 33-3 vote, SB 2-A was amended and debated the same day so it […]

Tag: Rick Scott

Enterprise Florida pushing for more money in the 2015-16 budget

Diane Roberts: Florida's presidential hopefuls have forgotten about Deepwater Horizon

Heat, lightning in air as economic development funding flies

Rick Scott’s office on health care funding: “We are continuing to watch the process”

Email insights: CLC is MIA, according to Florida Democrats

Finally … chambers set for Saturday conference on budget

Federal judge schedules hearing on Rick Scott’s Low Income Pool lawsuit

House poised to vote down Senate’s Medicaid expansion bill

Jac Wilder VerSteeg: Gov. Rick Scott's veto hinders effort to woo homeowners away from Citizens

Senate passes health care expansion bill by 33-3 vote