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| Budget: Schools Vs. Prisons |
| By JEFF E. SCHAPIRO AND TYLER WHITLEY TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERS |
| Published: 02/27/2009 |
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Richmond, VA - General Assembly budget writers -- cranky and election-conscious -- have hit an impasse over such high-dollar priorities as schools, prisons and mental health. "There are just a zillion things on which there are a zillion disagreements," said Senate Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw, D-Fairfax. "We're that far apart." Attempts to break a logjam over proposed restrictions on non-instructional employment collapsed, in part, because of an unlikely alliance between the Republican House and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat. Kaine and the House favor reining in support staff, but the Senate, with a slender Democratic majority, wants to preserve non-classroom positions. "I don't give a damn about the governor," said Sen. R. Edward Houck of Spotsylvania, a retired educator and the No. 2 Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. "I was surprised at the tone directed against the governor," said Del. Phillip A. Hamilton, R-Newport News, vice-chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Hamilton yesterday said talks among the 12 conferees -- six delegates and six senators -- have "taken a downward turn for the worse." At the heart of the House-Senate disagreement: How to spend more than $400 million in Obama administration-issued economic-stimulus funds for public schools and colleges and universities. "We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there," said Del. Lacey E. Putney, I-Bedford, Appropriations Committee chairman Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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