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Lawmakers Send Governor $23.3 Billion Budget
April 29, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH and REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – State lawmakers have returned to the governor a fiscal year 2011 budget $456 million lighter than the version he presented them in January. Lower year-over-year revenue figures during the first months of 2010 forced what many long-term senators described [...]
April 27, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – House and Senate budget conferees worked at record speed to slice nearly a half-billion dollars from the more than $23.5-billion-dollar fiscal year 2011 state budget. The process wrapped up Monday night, but an uncertain economic outlook teamed with a weakened revenue stream [...]
Continue reading …April 22, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Spurred by a deepening decline in state revenues, Gov. Jay Nixon Thursday announced another round of withholdings from the current fiscal year’s state budget. And sources at the Capitol say there may be more to come before the end of the fiscal [...]
Continue reading …April 20, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Senate took procedural steps Tuesday toward creating a conference committee for the bills that make up the fiscal year 2011 budget. Senators Rob Mayer, R-Dexter, Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, Scott Rupp, R- Wentzville, Joan Bray, D- St. Louis, and Timothy Green, D- [...]
Continue reading …April 16, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A clashing of wills is unfolding among two branches of the Missouri state government, and a third may be called to step in. At issue is the direction of education dollars in the supplemental budget for Fiscal Year 2010. On Thurs., April [...]
Continue reading …April 8, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The bill to make adjust the current year’s state budget to account for revenue shortfalls cleared the General Assembly. The House approved the supplemental budget by a vote of 96-51 on Thursday. It now heads to Gov. Jay Nixon’s desk for final [...]
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