From the Democrat and Chronicle:

Democrats released details Thursday on how $85 million in member-item money, so-called pork-barrel spending, will be distributed. Nearly $77 million will go to Democrats and about $8 million will go to Republicans.

The Senate agreed to a reform package early Thursday morning that will provide more equal distribution of resources and state grants in the future. The minority party will get one-third of the funds in future years. The sides, however, agreed to go ahead for this year with the old way of distributing member items, with most going to the majority.

Republicans received assurance from Democrats that money for projects approved in prior budgets would be released. Since taking the majority in January, Democrats had not released funding for many projects.

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