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Unicameral debate heads for panel

...chairman of the State Government Finance Committee, believes his panel should look at the bill. So does House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Bishop, R-Rochester. Both oppose the bill. ''What do strong opponents in chair positions do...

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Talks produce no deals on tax cuts, spending

...Sixteen times they were wrong and their mistakes totaled $8 billion in taxes that were not needed,'' said House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Bishop, R-Rochester. Moe and Wendy Wustenberg, Ventura's director of governmental relations, reiterated...

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Fate sealed for unicameral

...DFL-Brooklyn Center and a unicameral legislature supporter, said of sending the bill to Ways and Means. Ways and Means Chairman Dave Bishop, R-Rochester, scheduled a hearing for Tuesday afternoon, but Sviggum canceled it. Bishop, a...

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Administration to fight altering tax-cut price tag

...welcomed efforts by lawmakers to put their own imprint on the tax cut, and did not object to a suggestion by House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas, R-Calif., to first pass parts of the tax cut that would provide the most economic stimulus...

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House GOP leaders release broad spending targets

...appears to mirror the governor's plan. "We don't use the same priorities as the governor did," said House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Bishop, R-Rochester. Republicans plan to put nearly three times as much new money into K-12 education...

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Peru deal advances

...ready to join with the Bush administration and pass the Peru deal; then they backed away. Over the summer, Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., negotiated new Peruvian commitments on labor rights and the environment that made...

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Opinion
Marriage penalty

...through Congress, what can? ''There's no excuse why this shouldn't be done this year,'' said House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Archer, R-Texas. However, there are plenty of obstacles -- mostly political, some substantive, many...

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Whither the state surplus?

...aid and children's health care have suffered relative budget neglect in recent years, the report said. House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Bishop, R-Rochester, said he had never calculated the disposition of the state's accumulated surplus...

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The week ahead

...list is going to shorten, both in the size of the tax cuts and the new investments." His House counterpart, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Bishop, is also bracing for a smaller surplus. He figures this year's amount will fall under $900 million...

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House working on energy tax breaks

...after Congress passed Bush's $1.35 trillion, 10-year tax cut using the projected budget surplus -- but Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas said the initial House energy bill would use surplus dollars in fiscal 2002 and beyond. "I don't...

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