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State Representative Chris Swedzinski
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-5374
For more information contact: House GOP Communications 651-296-5520
POST SESSION UPDATE
News From Representative Swedzinski
We have produced a balanced budget that increases funding to K-12 Education as well as Health and Human Services. Since Governor Dayton vetoed that budget and he asked us to compromise with him, we have now offered him two compromises and we have yet to see a complete detailed budget from the Governor.
The first proposal we presented the Governor was our $34 billion balanced budget, which Governor Dayton vetoed, propelling us into an eventual special session. Our next compromise to break the stalemate was to offer to meet his funding requests for K-12 Education, the Judiciary, and Public Safety. These three areas make up nearly half the budget. I thought by meeting his funding requests on almost half the budget he would at least sign those bills in order to prevent losing teachers, and continued public safety in the event of a government shutdown, but Governor Dayton didn’t like that either. So we came up with another compromise for the Governor; we said we would take out our tax relief from the budget if he would take out his tax increases. The Governor called these compromises “extremely disappointing”. Without details from the Governor on his own budget, that puts everyone at an impasse on what to do.
With only 7 days until the Government could shutdown we are optimistically looking forward to the Governor calling a special session. With the clock ticking we need the Governor to call us back to the legislature.
Sincerely,
Chris
News Items
- Legislative Update from Rep. Chris Swedzinski - (Posted: Apr 26 2013 12:00AM)
- Legislative Update from Rep. Chris Swedzinski - (Posted: May 3 2013 12:00AM)
- REP. SWEDZINSKI AND SEN. DAHMS: GIVE RAISES TO THOSE WHO CARE FOR OUR ELDERLY AND DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED - (Posted: Apr 22 2013 6:48PM)
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