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Majority Democrats Move Budget Proposal Forward
Relying on the advantage of their numbers, majority Democrats in the Maine House rejected a Republican proposal for balancing the state budget and then went on to give all-but-final approval to their own $190 million supplemental budget in an 81-60 vote. The four-and-half-hour-long debate in the House saw the defeat of more than a dozen amendments which cleared the way for the measure to be taken up in the Senate. A.J. Higgins reports.

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