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| Lawmakers must commit to proper funding of public employee pension benefits | LEGISLATORS should pass the proposed constitutional amendment, Senate Joint Resolution 8214 and its companion House Joint Resolution 4219, to require proper funding of public employee pension benefits. The issue requires two-thirds of both houses and a vote of the people in November. 鈥 |
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| Amendment to limit state debt tangled in budget talks | A proposed constitutional amendment to limit state debt has hit opposition in the House and become entwined in the Legislature's budget negotiations. |
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| 3-year bachelor's degrees make sense as tuitions increase | It's no secret that state colleges and universities are going to get hammered in the final 2011-13 state budget being negotiated by the state House and Senate budget leaders. |
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| Hundreds attend spring career fair at 草榴社区 | |||
| Spring career fair is April 28 at 草榴社区 | |||
| Legislature starts special session to finish state budget | Lawmakers were back in Olympia on Tuesday to resume work on closing a $5.1 billion shortfall in the next two-year budget. |
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| Budgets, workers comp focus of WA special session | With lawmakers knowing they'd be back after a weekend-long interim, Friday's ending to the regular legislative session was anti-climactic, to put it nicely. Usually, the gavels in the House and Senate are struck at the same time to signal the end. This year, the House went ahead of the鈥 |
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| Gregoire: Special session to begin Tuesday | Gov. Chris Gregoire said Friday she'll call lawmakers back into special session on Tuesday to try to finish what they couldn't in their regularly allotted time - balancing a Washington budget that is more than $5 billion in deficit. "There is more work to be done, we are鈥 |
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| House, Senate leaders have different preferences for special session timing | Lawmakers are set to end their regular session Friday, two days short of the 105 days allowed 鈥 but with hope to finally bridge a $5.3 billion budget gap during a special session. 鈥淚 believe it can be done in two weeks,鈥 Senate Ways and Means chairman Ed Murray, D-Seattle, said Thursday鈥 |
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| Washington Legislature must not raid the capital budget to solve budget crisis | WASHINGTON state's budget crisis has everyone scrambling to eliminate government waste, find savings and possibly, end entire state programs. Despite all the bleak days in Olympia, there is one ray of hope still left coming from the capitol dome 鈥 Washington's capital investment plan.鈥 |