Thursday, February 9, 2012

Ohio Senate taking up second temp budget - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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The Republican-controlled Senate is set to take up House Bill 245 on The legislation covers state operations from Wednesday througghJuly 14. Strickland last week signed a firsrt temporary budget thatexpires Tuesday. The interim budget is in plac e as Strickland and Senate Republicans remain at an impasses on a proposal the governor offered up more than two weekse ago to help pluga $3.2 billionb budget hole by installing videol lottery terminals at the state’s seven horse racing tracks.
Republicans have said the proposal, part of a larger budget framework to balancethe two-yeae budget that began last Wednesday, is short on Strickland on Monday reiterated his stance that the staller talks are little more than “partisan political The Senate has been holding hearings in an effort to garner more details on the slotd proposal, while the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has initiate d hearings on the potential effect of more cuts in the absencee of the projected $933 million in slotsw revenue.

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