Florida Drug Testing

Rick Scott's Controversial Drug Testing Order Rebuked By Judge

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.26.2012

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A federal judge has ruled that Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) violated the Constitution last year when he ordered drug testing for state government worke...

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The Bad Research Behind Georgia's Welfare Drug Testing Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.23.2012

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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed a law last week that will soon require welfare applicants to pay for drug tests and pass them in order to be eligi...

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Should Parents Who Receive Child Support Be Drug Tested?

Posted 04.13.2012

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On Thursday, Iowa State Sen. Mark Chelgren proposed a measure that would require a parent who receives child support payments to submit to drug tests ...

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GOP Lawmaker Introduces Drug Testing For Child Support Measure

Posted 04.13.2012

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Iowa State Sen. Mark Chelgren introduced a measure Thursday that would have required parents receiving child support to submit to drug tests at the re...

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Rick Scott Signs Controversial Drug Testing Bill

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 03.20.2012

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Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) signed a controversial bill Monday allowing random drug testing of state workers. Scott signed the bill, which is l...

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Romney Praises Rick Scott's 'Excellent Idea'

Posted 02.10.2012

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A bill for drug testing welfare recipients has recently been on the table in Georgia, and at a campaign stop in Atlanta Mitt Romney told the NBC affil...

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Daily Show Targets Contentious Florida Law

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 02.03.2012

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The Daily Show went after Florida's highly debated welfare drug testing law in a Thursday night segment featuring state Rep. Scott Plakon (R-Longwood)...

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Dems Fire Back At GOP Proposals To Drug Test Jobless: 'You Pee In The Cup'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.07.2012

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The past year has seen an unprecedented wave of Republican bills to drug test the poor and jobless. It also saw a smaller wave of Democratic bills tha...

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The Tea Party: The First Mass Uprising Against the Masses

David Morris | Posted 01.08.2012

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The lack of empathy for what Occupy Wall Street would call the 99% is manifest wherever Tea Party Republicans come to power.

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Judge Hands Rick Scott Initiative A Setback

AP | MIKE SCHNEIDER and KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 12.24.2011

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ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge temporarily blocked Florida's new law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving bene...

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Rick Scott Backs Drug Testing Welfare Recipients, Public Workers And Himself

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.27.2011

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is standing by his state's new policy of drug testing welfare recipients even after the American Civil Liberties Union cha...

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