Kendrick Meek: “Not money we had in surplus. Not money that was there and we had it to spend. This was based on a credit card.”

The bottom line is, you have your back up against the wall, you have to make a decision, you have to do it now.

If climate change does have an effect on our economy and our future; and, as you know, as we look at this cap and trade piece, we have to look at some of the extreme weather events that we have experienced in Florida and throughout the…

One of the things I want to bring to the attention of the Committee is that unemployment in Florida is 9.4 percent, and in other parts of the State it's even higher.

Families that know what it means to punch in and punch out every day, some individuals that are really struggling in rural Florida, they need that tax credit, they need that assistance.