States Cut Taxes Echoes From Congress Across States
States echo Congress as lawmakers press tax cuts and smaller government amid Republican gains. Governors and legislatures plan agendas focused on welfare, crime, education, and balancing budgets, with surpluses guiding proposed refunds to taxpayers.
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Congress
America
Indiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alan Rosenthal
Rutgers University
Eagleton Institute of Politics
Newt Gingrich
Rosenthal
U.S
Nebraska
GOP
Associated Press
Alabama
Mike Box
William Pound
National Conference of State Legislatures
Denver
Texas
Montana
Irving Berlin
Annie Oakley
Russian commander killed in Grozny
Maj. Gen. Viktor Vorobyov, head of the Interior Ministry task force in Chechnya, was killed by a mortar near Grozny's Oil Institute as Russian forces attempt to retake the capital. Two officers were wounded. Russian troops and Chechen fighters battled around the city as casualties mounted and thousands fled.
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Grozny
Russia
Chechnya
Viktor Vorobyov
Interior Ministry
Vorobyov
Oil Institute
Alexander Kulikov
Itar-Tass
Boris Yeltsin
Russian Federation
Dzhokhar Dudayev
Dudayev
Ruslan Mirzhayev
Moscow News
Red Cross
Zhaladi Magomedov
Education prevails in legislative session
State Representative George Buddy West reflects on his freshman year in the Legislature. He recalls learning through crises in public schools and his role on the public education and energy resources committees. West notes the impact of Senate Bill 7 in keeping schools open and paying 2,500 workers.
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George
Buddy
West
Odessa
Public Education
Texans push reform shaping Texas education laws
State legislators file bills to allow school prayer abolish property taxes funding schools with lottery and other revenues and loosen no pass no play rules. They plan to rewrite the Education Code spending over 2 billion in new education funding as the 1995 session opens. Governor Teel Bivins comments on court rulings.
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Teel Bivins
Amarillo
State Supreme Court
Texas Supreme Court
Gramm wins big in first GOP taste test in Louisiana
Senator Phil Gramm captured 72 percent of the Louisiana GOP straw poll vote at the state convention, with Patrick Buchanan second at 12 percent and Lamar Alexander third. Bob Dole placed sixth amid missing attendance, while Gramm aims to press party unity and momentum ahead of the March 1996 primary.
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Gramm
Baton Rouge
Phil Gramm
Louisiana
Patrick J. Buchanan
Bush
Lamar Alexander
Tennessee
Senate Ma
Jority
Bob Dole
Jack Kemp
Reagan Administration
State Department
Alan Keyes
Dan Quayle
GOP
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Matt Branworth
Dorothy Anderson
Odessa Christian School
Odessa Christian
Clinton
O.A
Ken Brodnax
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