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Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | 1 day ago
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Getting issues on the table during study seesions may help get them through the Indiana Legislature. How do you ask state lawmakers to abandon old ways and make major changes in an election year? Getting the issue vetted and resistance identified early...
Tags: Indiana House, Southern Indiana, Southwestern Indiana, Trent Van Haaften, Senate Republicans, independent commission, Casino Aztar, U.S. House, social services, Todd Rokita, Indianapolis, Indiana House of Representatives, Suzanne Crouch, Aztar, Evansville Indiana, Redistricting, Casino Aztar Evansville
Legislative pensions' cost escalates
Lexington :: KY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility One of the changes lawmakers approved in that bill plays a role in causing the state's contribution to legislative pensions to jump from $759,158 in the current budget to nearly $4.3 million in the next two-year spending plan — assuming the 2010 General...
Tags: legislator pensions, Senate Republicans, House, Lexington, Steve Beshear, Pension provision in the United Kingdom, Prosecutors, Politics, Social Issues, Financial services, United States Senate, Labor, Pension
Lawmaker lining up senators with no-tax pledge
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility George Republican says right now he has commitments from 13 senators, plus himself -- one shy of the critical mass that would be needed in the 29-member body. He plans to seek written confirmation of the verbal pledges in the coming days. The anti-tax...
Tags: tax increase, Senate Republicans, Sen. Steve Urquhart, tax pledge, Sen. Howard Stephenson, raising tax, House Conservative Caucus, Salt Lake City, Public finance, Public image of Mike Huckabee, Value added tax, Tax reform, Sales taxes in the United States, Finance, Politics, Read my lips: no new taxes, Social Issues, Tax
All-day kindergarten in doubt
Ashland :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Cash-strapped school districts might get out of a new state requirement to offer all-day kindergarten. Some Senate Republicans are pushing to have the delay included in a compromise to fill an $851 million shortfall in the state budget -- although it's...
Tags: Senate GOP, construction reform, Ohio Department of Education, schools district, senate republicans, Ohio Board of Education, Strickland, Ohio State University, Ashland, Education, Democratic Party of Virginia, Politics, Shawnee State University, Kindergarten, Ted Strickland, Kansas state budget
Don't go to the bathroom | Michael Tomasky
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility The Senate Republicans ' healthcare plan is now officially unveiled. No, it has nothing to do with how they'd bring coverage to people. It's just a memo about how they'll gum up Senate procedure by exploring and implementing every conceivable way in which...
Tags: Senate Republicans, quorum called, United Kingdom, London, Quorum, Politics, Cloture, Quorum call, Parliamentary procedure, United States Senate, Standing Rules of the United States Senate Rule XXII, Filibuster
Still not near a deal on state budget
Columbus :: NM :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Negotiations to fill an $851 million state budget shortfall have bogged down over a disagreement between Senate Republicans and Democrats about whether reforming public-construction laws should be included in the budget fix. Another day of private meetings...
Tags: Senate Republicans, Columbus, Bruce Johnson, Politics, Republican Party, Social Issues, Ted Strickland
GOP backer of budget fix has found few followers
Columbus :: NM :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility The Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says he is willing to support the governor's plan to fix an $851 million budget shortfall, with a few amendments...Carey Jr. of Wellston can find four GOP colleagues willing to do the same, Ohio's...
Tags: GOP Senate, Senate Finance Committee, Strickland, Senate Republicans, Bill M. Harris, Carey, Richard H. Finan, Sen. Timothy J. Grendell, Ohio Supreme Court, tax cut, Columbus, Politics, Republican Party, Shawnee State University, Ted Strickland
Target practice
THE Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports that American negotiators will bring an emissions reduction target with them to the Copenhagen climate-change talks, even though Congress won't yet have passed the cap-and-trade legislation that turns such...
Tags: Polar ice packs, ice sheet, Glaciology, East Antarctic, Global warming, antarctic ice, Climate change, Senate Republicans, Environment, change sceptics, Juliet Eilperin, sea level, allnews, Barack Obama, Washington, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, If, Antarctic ice sheet, American, East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Labor chief fights using casino fees to fix budget
Columbus :: NM :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility The AFL-CIO says it will sue if state leaders try to use $200 million in casino licensing fees to help fill an $851 million shortfall in the state budget. "The constitutional amendment passed by voters earmarks the $200 million in licensing fees for regional...
Tags: Senate Republicans, licensing fees, Columbus, AFL-CIO, Ted Strickland, Earmark, Social Issues, Politics, Labor
Table game deal expected soon
State College :: PA :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility But the governor said lawmakers have made “significant progress” on the issues of the tax rate for table games and the licensing fees. House Democrats and Senate Republicans — the controlling parties — had been divided on those issues but have moved closer.
Tags: tax rate, license fees, Senate Republicans, Rendell House, resort casinos, house democrats, slot machines, Pennsylvania, State College, Downtown, Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, Clark County Nevada, Casino, Slot machine, Politics, Business Finance
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