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Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 December 2008 12:30 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 2 December 2008 12:30
From the Statesman Journal:
Children and education were the apparent winners, and human services the loser, in the two-year budget that Gov. Ted Kulongoski unveiled Monday for lawmakers.
“We don’t have the money to do everything that needs to be done in the next two years,” he said at a news conference. “But I propose a budget that invests in the future by investing in children, working families, businesses and economic opportunity during these challenging times.”
Now it’s up to lawmakers, who start their 2009 session Jan. 12, to make the difficult choices.
“Everybody who reads this budget is not happy,” said Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, who questioned some of the proposed cuts.