Word: budget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House budget was crafted in reaction to the $12.9 million spending package submitted in January by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. The governor's plan is linked to a controversial $604 million tax hike on capital gains, alcohol, cigarettes and gasoline...
...elimination of funding for the purchase of library materials and laboratory supplies. The Dukakis administration had requested $400,000, a $350,000 decrease from last year's budget...
...House Majority Leader Charles Flaherty(D-Cambridge), in a moving speech which many saidsounded more like a defense of the Dukakis budgetthan the House plan, criticized Republicanattempts to cut the budget further...
...budget crisis, we have a budgetglitch," Flaherty said...
...responsible for a lot, but we don't have the funds," she explains. "Because we have to have a balanced budget, we have to either set priorities and cut programs or find new revenues somehow...