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Scott: Tuition increase vetoed; $65M in Medicaid support OK
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Scott challenges IMG, other allocations
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House Speaker Weatherford defends health care votes in Bradenton
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Gov. Rick Scott’s choice on budget: to veto or not to veto?
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APNewsBreak: Fla. gov. rejects Amazon deal
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Florida safety net hospitals scrambling to prevent $65 million Scott veto
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Scott squashes $368M in pork spending
Gov. Rick Scott hailed his spending plan as a "Families First" budget.
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Gov. Rick Scott approves funding for IMG Academy, rowing center
Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed off a new state budget that includes funding for two projects seen as key to efforts to build Manatee County's sports industry.
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Florida Gov. Scott ready to give green light to texting bill?
A signing ceremony for the texting while driving bill (SB 52) has been set for 2-3 p.m. May 28th in Miami, according to an email listed on Project Sunburst, a website that displays executive staff emails in the Governor’s office.
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Ex-death row inmates: Veto Timely Justice Act
Two former death row inmates who have since been exonerated urged Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday to veto legislation that would expedite the state's capital punishment process, worrying it will condemn some innocent men to death.
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Florida lawmakers pay peanuts for health insurance
Florida House Republicans, who pay only $8.34 a month for their insurance reject billions of dollars in federal money to cover 1 million poor Floridians.
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Lawmakers led charge to give millions to private tutoring firms
Details of the backroom deal that outraged the 2013 Legislature.
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USF, other universities not counting on tuition increases
Gov. Rick Scott is playing it cagy as to when he might veto the tuition hike.
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Florida Gov. Scott expected to veto college tuition hike
Lawmakers included a 3 percent tuition increase in next year’s budget, but state universities say they aren’t counting on the extra money.
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Florida Senate president’s former company sued for Medicare fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued the hospice company founded by Florida Senate President Don Gaetz, accusing the company of engaging in Medicare fraud for more than 11 years, including during the time Gaetz was vice chairman.
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Weatherford’s veer to the right confuses Democrats, wins support from Republicans
Few Florida politicians were known for being more likable and reasonable than House Speaker Will Weatherford. But that was before the 2013 legislative session thrust the 33-year-old Wesley Chapel Republican to the forefront of the state’s most contentious issues.
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Gov. Scott pressured to call special Medicaid session
Gov. Rick Scott is coming under increasing pressure to call a special session over the Medicaid issue in Florida.
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Dems ask Florida governor for special session on Medicaid expansion
Pressure is mounting on Florida Gov. Rick Scott to call a special session to end the Legislature’s impasse on Medicaid expansion.
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Thousands of gun owners email Gov. Scott seeking veto of NRA-backed gun law
More than 4,000 people emailed Gov. Rick Scott on Friday, telling him to veto the only gun bill that passed through the Florida Legislature this year.
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