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House and Senate

Palin's replacement her polar opposite

5 hrs ago - In temperament, Sean Parnell is the polar opposite of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

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Late push sends deluge of bills to Ariz. governor

11 hrs ago - As Arizona lawmakers struggled to pass a budget, they pushed final votes on non-budget items to the last minutes of their legislative session and sent Gov. Jan Brewer nearly 200 bills to consider in less than two weeks.

60 votes not so super for Obama, Senate Democrats

15 hrs ago - Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support.

States set to ring in Independence Day sans budget

1 day ago - Several states are facing the prospect of government shutdowns and program cuts as they enter the first weekend of the fiscal year and July Fourth holiday without a budget in place.

Pa. school budgets in place _ but funding in doubt

2 days ago - Pennsylvania's state government began July mired in a partisan budget standoff, but its 500 school districts did not have the luxury of waiting out lawmakers - even though they don't know how much state support they will receive this year.

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News from the Pennsylvania General Assembly

2 days ago - DEATH CERTIFICATES: A bill to change how deaths are reported in Pennsylvania was signed into law by Gov. Ed Rendell. The law, which takes effect in 60 days, eliminates a requirement that local registrars transmit death certificates to county boards of election. Instead, the state Department of Health will transmit monthly electronic files containing information on adult resident deaths to the Department of State, which will enter the data into its statewide computerized voter registry so county officials can use it to update their voter rolls. (Senate Bill 446)

Tax revenue drop fuels states' financial crisis

2 days ago - An across-the-board drop in tax collections, coupled with a prolonged recession, has states facing their worst fiscal crisis in decades.

Obesity rates rising, Mississippi's still fattest

3 days ago - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.

Status of state budgets

3 days ago - Some developments in states facing budget problems:

Mississippi the fattest, Alabama closing the gap

3 days ago - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.

Ariz. gov vetoes school funding to force increase

3 days ago - Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday kept government running by signing the main spending bill in a budget approved by the Legislature, but she used her line-item veto authority on the budget's spending for K-12 public schools as a way to compel lawmakers to increase that funding.

Mississippi's still fattest but Alabama closing in

3 days ago - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.

Ariz. state workers to report to work as scheduled

3 days ago - The Arizona Legislature early Wednesday completed action on nine budget bills to implement most of a compromise $8.4 billion budget negotiated with Gov. Jan Brewer, whose administration told state employees to report to work as scheduled though she hadn't yet received the bills or acted on them.

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