Still stinging from Gov. Rick Scotts rejection of $2.4 billion from Washington for a Tampa-to-Orlando bullet train, lawmakers asked Thursday for more time to figure out how they could accept the money without him.
WASHINGTON -- Five days before his inauguration, President-elect Obama told The Washington Post that entitlement reform could no longer be kicked down the road. He then spent the next two years kicking -- racking up $3 trillion in new debt along the way -- on the grounds that massive temporary deficit spending was necessary to prevent another Great Depression.
Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, announced on Thursday that he was introducing a measure to prohibit taxpayer dollars being used for professional athletics unless approved by a majority of the residents within the jurisdictional boundaries of such government entity. The House version was being introduced by Rep. Fred Costello, R-Ormond Beach.
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The House Finance and Tax Committee forwarded a bill on unemployment compensation on Thursday, sending it to the Economic Affairs Committee.
Floridas current unemployment compensation system is broken, insisted Rep. Steve Precourt, R-Orlando, the chairman of the Finance and Tax Committee.
The system was never designed for the severity of the current economic downturn and this has caused an unsustainable rise in payments to unemployed workers through large, automatic increases in the employer-paid taxes that fund the benefits.
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Two thirds of the Senate broke with Gov. Rick Scott and sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Thursday asking for more time before re-allocating federal funds targeted for high-speed rail projects to other states.
Please give us the time necessary to work with the enterprise prior to re-allocating Floridas funds to another state, wrote the senators.
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Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland weighed in on Thursday, marking the second anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the federal stimulus into law.
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As Republicans in Congress look to cut $100 billion from the federal budget, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. David Rivera attacked President Barack Obama for standing in the way of a trimmer federal government.
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