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Connecticut House Passes Budget; Senate Approval Expected to Cap Struggle.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003
By Christopher Keating, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 31--After months of bitter wrangling and last-minute horse trading, exhausted state legislators approved a $27.5 billion, two-year budget Wednesday night that is designed to end the state's worst fiscal crisis in more than a decade.
The bipartisan vote by the House of Representatives, which could be ratified by the Senate as early as today, marked the first step in ending one of the most difficult chapters in state budget history. The daylong lobbying and backroom dealing Wednesday focused on multiple aspects of a complicated political document that was described by most lawmakers as ugly.
The two-year budget, $13.5 billion in the first year...
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