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September 6, 2016

#msleg Budget Committee playing second fiddle to working groups?

Budget Committee on decline with creation of ‘working groups’ The 14-member Legislative Budget Committee, once considered the most powerful committee in the Mississippi Legislature, continues to lose its luster. This year it appears the joint committee will play second fiddle to the “working groups” composed by Lt. Gov Tate Reeves, who presides over the Senate,…
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September 2, 2016

DAILY JOURNAL editoral: Until #msleg bipartisan consensus reached, no transportation monies coming

DAILY JOURNAL – OUR OPINION: Road, bridge maintenance ignored, won’t go away Surrette hit the nail on the head when he said that any change in infrastructure funding is going to require Democrats and Republicans to be in the same room talking through their options. If that once was a common practice it no longer…