A plan to break up the state Department of Management Services is being called a "rational reorganization" or, in less glowing terms, "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic."
Senate Bill 1238 would disperse the 1,266-employee DMS by shifting many of its functions into the Department of Financial Services, while creating a new Agency for Asset Management to be housed temporarily under the Department of Environmental Protection.
U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., said from his Washington, D.C., office today that he opposes the Democrat-supported federal health care overhaul working its way through Congress. It's a costly bill that the nation lacks money to fund, and he said he hoped Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach, and other Democratic members of Florida's Congressional delegation would vote down the proposal.
"It's a bad bill for Florida," LeMieux said.
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U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., said in a phone call from Washington, D.C., today that it wouldn't make sense for President Barack Obama to do nothing but repeat bad news during his April 15th visit to Florida to discuss a NASA budget that grounds the agency's return to the moon and jettisons 7,000 aerospace jobs.
LeMieux said he plans to demand during the visit that the President promise that NASA will be given funding to return to the moon and then make the journey to Mars, and he wants the President to set a specific deadline for both goals.
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As if the Securities Exchange Commission didn't have its hands full tracking down financial scammers, Chairwoman Mary Schapiro's crew is getting into global warming.
In a recent vote, the SEC imposed climate-change disclosure requirements on publicly traded companies.
That move heated up Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, who joined 20 of his House colleagues in condemning the move.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has rejected Florida's request for help in assessing damage caused by corrosive Chinese drywall, according to a letter from Phil May, FEMA's regional administrator in Atlanta.
The letter said that the state's request doesn't meet the federal criteria for an emergency or major disaster and thus cannot be granted.
``Conditions experienced by individuals from a consumer product safety matter, such as the degradation of imported drywall, does not constitute an emergency or major disaster incident,'' said May
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Republican leaders in both House and Senate set the table for conservative legislation due to come to a votewhen both convene Thursday.
The House pushed through the following:
ameasure capping legal fees for private attorneys representing the state Attorney Generals Office;
legislation moving the burden of proof from retailers to injured plaintiffs in slip-and-fall cases;
a bill restoring affiliated political-committee funds; and,
A change to a statewide school prayer proposal may ease the way for its passage after years of floundering, though civil liberties groups continue to oppose it.
Rep. Brad Drake, R-Eucheanna, and Sen. Stephen Wise, R-Jacksonville, are the sponsors of bills (HB 31, SB 1580) that would permit students to give inspirational messages, including a prayer or an invocation during certain school events. .
State senators voted Tuesday to make Florida the 20th state to demand a balanced federal budget and limited federal restrictions on state spending, despite Democrats complaints that such a measure could limit federal aid to the states.
