text_1: "Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Gov. Rick Scott ""cut nearly $1 million from mosquito control and closed down the state’s mosquito research lab a few years ago."
text_2: "Wasserman Schultz said that Scott ""cut nearly $1 million dollars from mosquito control and closed down the state’s mosquito research lab a few years ago."" In 2011, the Legislature under Scott did cut about $1 million for mosquito control dropping the total to about $1.3 million and cut it again by about $300,000 the following year. But the state then increased the budget to about $2.7 million the next year and it has remained in that ballpark for four years. Scott also vetoed a one-time appropriation of $500,000 in 2011 for a mosquito lab at FAMU, and the university then shut it down. But the center was already on the university’s chopping block, and the state has since funded another university’s lab."