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TALLAHASSEE -- The 2009 lawmaking session that is not quite over will best be remembered not for what lawmakers did, but for what they went through.
The one-time Speaker of the House was indicted in a political scandal that by extension condemned the furtive budget process. Not since the Great Depression had the Florida economy been so bad. Republicans were forced to raise taxes and to accept the federal largess of a Democratic president.
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