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Governor, lawmakers spreading the pain - 2003-03-14
With House and Senate committees ready to make hundreds of millions in budget cuts -- from the University of Maryland to teachers' salaries to health care for poverty-stricken children -- the budget debate is about to enter a new stage: pain.

Meanwhile, even as legislators were finally getting printed copies of Ehrlich's gambling bill Thursday, they started considering cuts that would give $70 million more a year...
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Legislators predict gambling bill won't survive - 2003-03-14
Legislation that would permit slot machines to be placed in existing pari-mutuel facilities are running individual races in each chamber of the Florida Legislature.

But opponents, which include Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, aren't willing to surrender on gambling expansion for the sake of a budget quick-fix.
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