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April 21, 2010

AP – Miss. Legislature passes 1st group of budget bills

AP – Miss. Legislature passes 1st group of budget bills JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Tuesday and began passing dozens of non-controversial budget bills to fund state government, even as their most contentious debate on the general fund looms later this week. Discussions were mostly subdued because the House and…
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April 21, 2010

WAPO – Childers’ gun language kills DC voting rights bill

WAPO – Childers’ gun language kills DC voting rights bill House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) abandoned the long-sought legislation with the blessing of Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who had pushed for the measure. Hoyer said they pulled the bill because of an amendment that would have repealed most of the District’s gun-control…