With $24.2 million in general revenue cuts and another $200 million cut in trust fund revenues, a Senate budget committee on Monday unveiled its first shot at a spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year.

With final economic forecasts due out at the end of the week, the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development spent its entire meeting Monday outlining proposed cuts and funding shifts to comply with budget allocations set forth by the Senates budget chief JD Alexander.

Disregarding the fact that Florida's proposed immigration reform measures would be weaker by far than Arizona's, Democratic legislators were determined to make a statement Monday: They vowed to kill any legislation that smacks of the controversial recent Arizona law.

Arizona has a black eye in the world. We dont need that black eye, said Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa.