Democrats split over the bill.
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The budget bill has been greatly anticipated as the House and Senate modified and contemplated a revenue bill for the first eight days of the session. “But the time has come to change course”. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City.
Instead, Cornyn said he believes conversations are already underway about how Republicans can negotiate with Democrats to avoid across-the-board spending cuts that are scheduled to go into effect in October.
“Be mindful that we have a path we are blazing. People would no longer get paid twice for the exact same injury”. We’re going to give it up because the moderates are saying this is the best deal we’re going to get? That would be a major problem for the GOP, which nudged the measure through the House by four votes.
“They’re obviously looking at a philosophically opposite view of raising revenue”, Senate Finance Chairman Mike Hall, R-Putnam, said of the House, which passed a revenue plan Friday with no sales tax increases and no income tax cuts on a bipartisan 74-17 vote.
“I think it’s disappointing they’re going in the opposition direction”, Armstead said of the Senate proposal, which follows the House’s rejection Friday of an earlier Senate plan to raise the tax to 6.95 percent.
Deputy Revenue Secretary Mark Muchow testified before the committee that the bill results in $147 million in new revenue for fiscal 2018, but – not taking into account any potential economic growth – then results in deficits of $56 million, $122 million, $137 million and $178 million over the coming years.
The new budget plan doesn’t take into account adding any new money for K-12 schools to comply with a state Supreme Court ruling.
The House narrowly rejected a three-tier income tax bill Monday that would have raised $1.2 billion over a two-year period to address a projected deficit of $900 million. But the fact is that the Republican bill does the exact opposite.
“They’re not wanting a bigger government”. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, for example, said that using normal economic projections, the White House’s proposal would not eliminate the deficit and would allow USA debt to continue growing into the next decade. Rep. Boog Highberger, D-Lawrence, said the Ad Astra program should be considered an “absolute scam”.
Rep. Blake Carpenter, R-Derby, said the bill violated the Republican Party platform. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, about concerns that the proposal could have unintended consequences, Kacal said he had “vetted the bill very well”.
Meanwhile, the House’s bathroom bill rules were attached to a separate Senate bill whose author is rejecting them as too watered-down.
The House amended the bill to require public schools and open-enrollment charter schools to limit the use of bathroom and locker rooms to each student’s “biological sex”, barring transgender students from using the facility of their gender identity. In 2011, the Texas Senate voted to expand the board’s veto power over classroom electronic materials.
Here’s how south-central Kansas lawmakers voted on SB 30 to raise taxes and roll back an exemption for some businesses.
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The bill split both parties and failed on a 53-68 vote, 10 votes shy of passage.
