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• Dem Support for Power Grab Not Likely, Holland Says

  —JFP: Noise

  by Adam Lynch November 10, 2009 Joint Legislative Budget Committee member Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, says House Democrats will not readily agree to hand Gov. Haley Barbour more power to personally cut the state budget. "We're likely to give the governor that kind of authority on the same day we'll agree to consolidating" [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:05pm EST
  

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• Defectors Among the House Democrats

  —Yall Politics

  Defectors Among the House Democrats Representative Travis Childers of Mississippi said that he would oppose the House health care bill because it was simply too expensive at a time of economic crisis for the nation. “First and foremost, I cannot vote for legislation with this big of a price tag in today’s [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:16pm EST
  

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• Taylor opposes health care bill’s lack of abortion funding prohibition

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  Taylor opposes health care bill’s lack of abortion funding prohibition U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, has deeply held beliefs against abortion. He also has deeply felt objections to the Democratic Party’s health care bill as too costly and too bureaucratic. Taylor is one of 40 pro-life House Democrats who are poised [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:16pm EST
  

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• Rep George Flaggs (D) puts school consolidation on the table at MEC Hobnob

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  School district consolidations on table? One of Mississippi's leading House Democrats has questioned whether the state can afford its 152 school districts and eight public universities. "These are the questions we have to ask," Rep. George Flaggs said Wednesday at the Mississippi Economic Council's Hobnob in Jackson. "If we want a balanced" [...]

  Posted: October 22, 2009, 9:26am EDT
  

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