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• Dade delegation leaves Dolphins stadium off list of 2013 priorities

  The Miami-Dade delegation of state lawmakers decided not to list the Miami Dolphins stadium deal among its legislative priorities for this year.

  During a Wednesday meeting to plan out legislative goals for 2013, the Dolphins’ proposal was not even brought up, several members of the delegation said.

  “The Dolphins bill is one of many member bills [...]

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• Sen. Bob Menendez went to bat for FBI-raided donor over Medicare over-billing

  While Politico talks about Sen. Bob Menendez's pushback on the "smears" against him, The Washington Post breaks the news that he went to bat for the South Florida eye doctor whose office was raided by federal agents:

  Sen. Robert Menendez raised concerns with top federal health-care officials twice [...]

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• In the battle over eye doctors, senators take lobbyist out for a 'thank you dinner'

  The setting was a private room at Shula's 347 Grill on Wednesday, arguably the swankiest venue in Tallahassee, and the dinner list included six senators and head of the optometric association and its lobbyist.

  Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, sponsor of a bill to give optometrists the ability to prescribe oral [...]

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• Charter bill makes it easier to establish new schools, more regulations for existing ones

  Today, the House Choice & Innovation Subcommittee voted along party lines to approve a massive charter school bill that has already drawn the ire of school districts and Democrats.

  The bill’s components can generally be divided into two themes: new regulations intended to rein in problematic charter schools (we’re looking at you, North Star [...]

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• Lawmakers ask AHCA to tweak new Medicaid formula for hospitals

  Saying they want teaching and safety net hospitals to come out as winners instead of losers, members of the Senate’s Health Policy Committee have asked to state to provide more options for implementing a new Medicaid payment system for hospitals.

  The new diagnosis-related group payment model, or DRG, was developed by the Agency for Health [...]

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• Marco Rubio to rebut President Obama's SOTU in English and Spanish

  Marco Rubio won’t just give the Republican rebuttal to President Obama’s state of the union speech on Tuesday night.

  The Florida Senator will give two.

  One in English. Otro en Español.

  It’s the first time such a high-profile speech will be given in two languages by the same person, and it’s a sign [...]

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• Daily Caller: FBI probe of Sen. Bob Menendez moves from Miami to NJ

  From the Daily Caller, a conservative website:

  Two FBI sources have told The Daily Caller that the bureau’s inquiry into Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is now based in New Jersey, not Miami. One added that pressure is mounting from the highest levels of the Justice Department to pursue the [...]

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• What Univision’s alleged-hooker story didn’t say about Sen. Bob Menendez

  When Univision interviewed a woman it suggested was named in a prostitution scandal tied to Sen. Bob Menendez, the Spanish-language powerhouse network didn’t disclose how it determined if this woman was even the right person.
  
  It also didn’t note that the Yaneisi Fernandez the network spoke to didn’t [...]

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• Rep. Joe Garcia talks immigration on MSNBC

  Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, D-Miami, has entered the fray on immigration on Capitol Hill, appearing on MSNBC's The Daily Rundown with NBC's Chuck Todd.

  “[The Republicans] have evolved [on immigration]. I think this is important,” Garcia told Todd. “We’ve got to find a pathway forward and I think that’s the [...]

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• Committee passes out Ethics Reform bill, delays AG-aimed amendment

  The Senate Community Affairs Committee unanimously passed the high-priority Senate bill out of committee this morning, only after deflecting some controversy.

  The committee adopted an amendment that Ethics Committee chairman Sen. Jack Latvala said was intended to provide more flexibility to city and county officials who want to take a job [...]

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