By Lindsay Urbinas
Tallahassee -- A powerful Senate panel is expected this morning to pass a handful of bills designed to plug the state's $2.4 billion budget shortfall.
While schools and social services would take the biggest hit in the more than $1 billion in cuts, the Senate also is taking aim at a signature environmental program, Florida Forever, which has preserved more than 550,000 acres of undeveloped land between 2001 and 2006.
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