Floor debate highlights divisions over budget approach after failed revenue votes
Lawmakers spent an extended period airing disagreements over how to close a roughly $125 000 000 shortfall after recent revenue bills failed. Some urged cuts and appropriations scrutiny; others warned against raids on constitutionally created cash funds and pushed for compromise solutions.
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A long floor debate during the session centered on how the Legislature should respond after recent revenue proposals failed to secure support, with senators offering competing approaches to close an estimated multi-hundred-million-dollar shortfall.
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