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Virginia Budget Battle: House Presses Gov. Warner to Repudiate Senate's High-Tax Budget
Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | February 25, 2004 | Jeff Schapiro, Michael Hardy

Posted on 02/25/2004 9:01:17 AM PST by cogitator

Edited on 07/20/2004 11:51:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

House Republican leaders sought to put Gov. Mark R. Warner on the spot yesterday, pressing him to declare whether he would sign a Senate proposal to have Virginians pay $2 billion a year in new taxes.

Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford, describing the Senate plan as "astonishing and mind-boggling," called on Warner to say whether he would sign it.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: budget; revenues; taxes; vageneralassembly; vincecallahan; virginia
Strategery. And more strategery.
1 posted on 02/25/2004 9:01:17 AM PST by cogitator
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