A second wave of tea party activists gets back to work in Tallahassee Thursday, meeting with top state officials on budget and policy issues.
In the wake of Tuesday's tea rally outside the old Capitol, 138 tea party leaders will set up shop in the Knott Building, where they will hear from Senate President Mike Haridopolos, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and others.
Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, a chief supporter of the state's prescription-drug monitoring program, lashed out Wednesday at a bill proposed in the state House that would get rid of the database.
Rep. Robert Schenk, R-Spring Hill, wants to get rid of the state's prescription-drug monitoring program, backing Gov. Rick Scott's stance that the database is an invasion of privacy. His bill won't be unveiled until Thursday, but Fasano already doesn't like it.
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With Gov. Rick Scott promising to bring 700,000 jobs to the Sunshine State in the next seven years and Florida lagging behind the nation with high unemployment, Florida TaxWatch unveiled an updated report Wednesday to help the state figure out how it can be more economically competitive.
The Florida Senate is poised to vote on a bill later this week that would tie teacher pay to student performance, following an extensive debate on the Senate floor Wednesday over the bill's funding and the nature of teacher contracts.
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Rick Scott rose to political prominence by opposing the health-care law backed by President Barack Obama, so it comes as no surprise that he cheered the Florida Senate passing a measure opposing it. Scott praised Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, for voting for a measure to ensure Floridians would not be penalized if they opted out of the new law.
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The Purdue pharmaceutical company announced Wednesday that it would give $1 million to help start up Florida's prescription drug database, designed to help doctors know what prescriptions their patients are taking in an effort to crack down on "doctor shopping."
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Florida TaxWatch unveiled a new study on Wednesday entitled State Competitiveness Indices & Rankings: What National Rankings Tell Us about Florida's Competitiveness.
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The Florida Senate unanimously voted to reprimand its leader, Senate President Mike Haridopolos, for failing to properly file financial disclosure documents from 2004 to 2008.
The Senate Rules Committee previously accepted the finding of the Commission on Ethics that his violation was inadvertent.
The measure sparked some debate over whether the public reprimand of Haridopolos was too harsh for an unintentional violation.
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