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'Awake the State' Slumbers in Tallahassee
Tuesday's "Awake the State" protests might draw a combined crowd of 8,000 at sites across Florida, but organizers say the turnout in Tallahassee, when the Legislature opens, will be tiny.
A permit request for the Leon County Courthouse grounds says "less than 100 people" are expected to attend the 10:30 a.m. event. It is one of 17 scheduled rallies protesting Gov. Rick Scott's proposed $5 billion in state budget cuts.
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Floridians Focus on Medicaid, Medicare Fraud on Capitol Hill
The U.S. House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, under the umbrella of the full Energy and Commerce Committee, dealt with Medicaid and Medicare fraud Wednesday -- and, while officials from the Obama administration could not provide solid numbers, other witnesses estimated that fraud and waste in these programs cost taxpayers between $60 billion and $90 billion.