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Today on Context Florida: GOP flips the bird, Baltimore, Earth Day and tainted FBI testimony

Published on April 29, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Today on Context Florida: With nearly four days left in the Florida Legislature’s regular session, Speaker Steve Crisafulli and House Republicans essentially flipped us the bird and flew home, says Daniel Tilson. The political class in Tallahassee likes to call such adjournment of each year’s session by its traditional Latin name, Sine Die. But given the shocking way it went down, no such lofty labels are in order. Steven Kurlander says the lessons of Baltimore are that Americans need to wake…

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Bill Day’s latest: The widening budget gap over Medicaid expansion

Published on March 23, 2015 in Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Both the Florida House and Senate released spending plans for the upcoming fiscal year, providing funding for everything from education and transportation to the newly passed Amendment 1 land-conservation measure. Beyond that, however, the two budgets could not be further apart; almost $5 billion, to be exact. Bill Day’s latest takes aim at this fiscal chasm, which rests on a single issue – Medicaid expansion. The Senate proposal includes a portion of the $50 billion in federal money for expanding…

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PolitiFact: House GOP dominates Internet

Published on January 31, 2010 in Uncategorized by Peter Schorsch

Here it is in a recent news release from House Republican leader John Boehner: “PWNED: House GOP Dominates Twitter, YouTube, Social Media in Congress.” The release said, “The conventional wisdom is being turned upside down as House Republicans demonstrate an unmatched ability to connect with the American people on the Internet’s most popular communities. Once considered the party of online innovation, new research and a host of media reports show that Democrats are largely ignoring some of the most popular…

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