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Budget chief faces backlash on Vikings bill

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota's budget chief said Monday he will likely wait until summer before deciding whether to activate so-called blink-on revenue options for the...

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GOP questions 'cuts' in Dayton budget

...Director Margaret Kelly said would be spent instead on forestry, parks and trails programs. Jim Schowalter, Dayton's budget chief, clarified that the $225 million was "cuts and reallocations." An administration spokesman later provided the breakdown...

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Tax overhaul won't be easy sell for governor

...final budget deal. Whether Dayton will get the bigger shake-up he's after is unclear. Peter Hutchinson, who was budget chief to the last Democratic governor, said the outcome probably hinges in what Dayton does to build public pressure. Hutchinson...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-01-21/tax-overhaul-wont-be-easy-sell-gover
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Lawmakers start examination of Dayton plan

...million in cuts is actually both cuts and some reallocated spending within agencies, including the DNR. Dayton's budget chief, Jim Schowalter, confirmed that. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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GOP panel backs state cash-flow borrowing

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A panel of Republican lawmakers has given Gov. Mark Dayton's budget chief its stamp of approval for the state to borrow from a line of credit if necessary to meet cash flow needs in a shaky economy.The...

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Senate passes bills to ease shutdown pain

...state budget. The House versions of DeKruif's bill have not moved past committee hearings. Gov. Mark Dayton's budget chief says the governor prefers a more comprehensive approach to avoiding future shutdowns. Copyright 2012 The Associated...

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Brainerd Dispatch: Opinion | Brainerd, Minnesota | Brainerd Lakes Area Opinion on

...the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees. And they could ask that the newly confirmed administration budget chief, Jacob Lew, fresh from his experience as deputy secretary of state, be added to the mix, with hopes that his diplomatic...

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Congress ignoring Bush plea to slash home-district spending

...Bush did not request. "I don't think we're having too much success so far" in cutting the projects, White House budget chief Mitchell Daniels conceded in an interview last week. Facing this early deluge, the administration has begun to play...

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Slowdown, rebates will force U.S. to borrow $51 billion

...Treasury figures. Nor does it signal the end of the era of surpluses. Mitchell Daniels, the Bush administration's budget chief, predicted this month that the government's surplus for the fiscal year that ends in September would be between...

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Bush budget chief insists government has enough money without touching Social Security

...using Social Security funds, even though projected federal surpluses have shrunk in the last month, President Bush's budget chief told Congress Wednesday. But in his first appearance before lawmakers since official surplus forecasts plummeted in...

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