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Marco Rubio has been telling any- one who would listen that the Republi- can tax bill could not be called a cut for the middle class unless it included a $2,000 per-child tax credit fully refund- able against the payroll tax. He helped get the Senate to double the credit to $2,000 but could not con- vince his colleagues to add the refund- ability portion, which means many working class families would not be able to take full advantage of the credit. Despite that, Rubio was among the 51 Republican senators who voted for pas- sage in the early Saturday The bill now must be reconciled with the version of tax relief, which only in- creased the credit to $1,600. Rubio and Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee made a last-minute plea to colleagues before the Senate voted on their amend- ment to include the refundability, which would have been paid for in the proposal by increasing the tax on corporations from 20 percent to 20.94 percent.

currently 35 percent). against this today ba- sically arguing that a .94 percent cut is something that corporations af- ford and more important to keep in place than giving American families a (larger) tax he said on the Senate The amendment failed 71-29 with a bipartisan klatch of senators voting with Rubio and Lee, including Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. Rubio appeared to undercut his le- verage on the issue by signaling to GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R- earlier in the day he was ready to vote for the bill as is. McConnell de- clared Friday morning he had the votes to pass the tax bill, implying Rubio was already on bard before the vote on his amendment.

The overall tax bill passed 51-49 at 1:36 a.m., with Sen. Bob Corker of Ten- nessee as the only GOP vote against the measure. Afterwards, put out a statement, saying the positives outweighed the lack of child tax credit refundability. Fla. lawmakers united on citrus aid Florida Republicans are trying to re- main and resolute in their to help the decimated citrus in- dustry but circumstances could under- cut their The request for $761 million to cover citrus industry losses from Hurri- cane Irma part of an overall ask of $1.5 billion for agriculture damage was not included in the Trump administra- latest request for disaster assis- tance.

So members of the Florida dele- gation have been meeting with House leaders to add the money as the disaster aid bill makes its way through Congress. No guarantees so far, according to a spokesman for GOP Rep. Dennis Ross, whose citrus-heavy central Florida dis- trict got socked by Irma. Ross, who calls the 27-member dele- gation as as seen it on any issue, is the delegation has the leverage and the fortitude to get the money included. will not vote for a (disaster aid) package unless included in Ross said in an interview Thursday.

a comment echoed by GOP Rep. Tom Rooney, another Florida congressman constituents include scores of or- ange farmers. Despite their vow, sticking with the pledge might not be easy. If Congress gets to vote on a stand- alone disaster relief bill, Florida law- makers can join with unhappy Texas members and exact concessions. But things get complicated if at- tached to a spending bill that avoids a government shutdown or legislation to continue the insurance program vital to many Florida homeowners.

Those bills will be much harder to vote against because the bills include provi- sions or funding for other programs im- portant for many of their constituents. going to hap- pen, Ross said. we have to stake our claim and what Poll: favorability rising Rick Scott appears to have gotten a boost from Hurricane Irma, a new poll suggests. The online poll of Floridians conduct- ed by the St. Leo University Polling poll- ing Institute released Friday found that roughly 61 percent of respondents gave Republican governor a thumbs up, compared to the 56 percent in its March survey.

Meanwhile, unfa- vorables tumbled from 39 percent to 31 percent over the same period. Scott has enjoyed consistently strong approval ratings during 2017, and he certainly received a small bump for the way he handled a hurricane season for the state of said Frank Orlando, director of the polling in- stitute and a political scientist at Saint Leo University. the economy continues to grow, his overall approval comes as no Respondents were not asked about performance during the hurricanes. The poll also shows Scott with a 10- point lead over Democratic Sen. Bill Nel- son 42 percent-32 percent in a po- tential Senate matchup in 2018, com- pared to the four-point lead Nelson en- joyed in March.

Most analysts expect the race to be much closer than that come Election Day next year. The poll of 500 Floridians was con- ducted from Nov. 19-24 and has a mar- gin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percent- age points. Automatic registration favored Six in 10 Floridians support automat- ic voter registration for legal state resi- dents turning 18, a new University of South Florida-Nielsen Sunshine State poll indicates. Sixty percent of those surveyed said such a move, which could swell the election rolls was a step in the That was more than double the 25 percent who called it a move in the The rest, about 15 percent, did not have an opinion.

Ten states have already adopted the policy: Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Vir- ginia. A Democratic bill died in the GOP- controlled state Senate during 2017 legislative session. If adopted, such a step would likely boost the voter rolls by hefty margins, according to an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law which supports the move. Since Oregon adopted the change in 2015, the state is adding more than 15,000 new voters per month simply through that mechanism, the Brennan Center found. Under that model, Flori- da, with times the population of Oregon, could see a monthly rise of some 75,000 voters.

That would be the equivalent of adding the population of the Florida Keys every 30 days. Majorities in key demographic groups (broken down by race, age, in- come and geography) all support the change, the survey showed. Support for automatic registration was strongest among blacks (81 per- cent), young residents aged 18 to 34 (66 percent), and people living in household with incomes below $35,000 (65 percent). Regionally, residents of Palm Beach (69 percent), North Florida (65 percent), and Lauder- dale (65 percent) are the most in favor of the proposal. The telephone survey of a random sample of 1,215 Floridians ages 18 and older was conducted July 24-August 14.

It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. Contact Ledyard King at nett.com; Twitter: Rubio backs tax bill without child credit changes LEDYARD KING Fort Myers News-Press USA TODAY NETWORK FLORIDA.