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	<title>The Capitol Record &#187; Budget</title>
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		<title>This week&#8217;s Inside Olympia &#8212; right here</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week: Senate Democrat Leader Lisa Brown and House Republican Leader Richard DeBolt share their views on the state budget, possible tax hikes, and other key issues facing the 2012 State Legislature. Enjoy.]]></description>
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		<title>Chief economist Arun Raha will leave by Jan. 31</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Salerno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington&#8217;s chief economist Arun Raha announced today in a press conference that he is resigning Jan. 31 to take a new job in the private sector. Since taking office three years ago amid the Great Recession, Raha&#8217;s quarterly economic forecast reports haven&#8217;t exactly been rosy. &#8220;It was a challenge and any job I have after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate passed the budget cuts, transfers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate just took up House Bill 2058, which makes about $480 million in fund transfers and cuts. To kick off debate, Sen. Ed Murray said the state&#8217;s unemployment rate has just dropped to 8.7 percent, as reported by the Associated Press. &#8220;It&#8217;s not low enough, but it&#8217;s definitely movement,&#8221; he said. Murray said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House passed budget cuts &#8212; now, it&#8217;s the Senate&#8217;s turn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House is now on the floor, taking up HB 2058, the $480 million in cuts and fund transfers negotiated over special session. You can watch live on TVW. Rep. Charles Ross brought up an amendment (that had previously failed in committee) to cut funding to Commute Trip Reduction (also here). The program provides incentives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House budget writing committee passes bill to cut, transfer $480 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House Ways and Means committee is getting ready to vote on the bill to make about $480 million in fund transfers and spending reductions. Before the vote, Rep. Gary Alexander said he was disappointed that lawmakers weren&#8217;t doing more. He said the $1.4 billion problem needs to be addressed &#8212; and that lawmakers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on budget cut hearings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Ways and Means committee held a brief hearing on its version of cuts and transfers and has now moved on to public testimony on the Involuntary Treatment Act. The House budget writing committee is now hearing about the Federal Main Street Fairness Act &#8212; if Congress passes the bill, it could bring $400 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House, Senate release nearly $500 million in cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised by Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown last week, the legislature has released a list of cuts and fund transfers to consider during special session. The grand total? $479 million. The House and Senate drafts should be available online soon. I&#8217;ll be sifting through the cuts and transfers and posting more. In the meantime, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Majority Leader: Budget writers are close on a package of cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[House and Senate budget writers are close to a compromise on several hundred million dollars in cuts, according to Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown. Brown held a press availability this morning. She said that budget writers are neither ready to adopt Gov. Chris Gregoire&#8217;s full package of cuts to bridge the $2 billion spending gap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Chris Gregoire&#8217;s take on taxes, the budget, protests and more &#8212; exclusive interview from The Impact</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2011/11/gov-chris-gregoires-take-on-taxes-the-budget-protests-and-more-exclusive-interview-from-the-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On tonight&#8217;s edition of The Impact, I talk with Gov. Chris Gregoire about her tax proposal, the state budget, special session, her thoughts on the Occupy protests at the capitol &#8211; and much more. We didn&#8217;t have time to air the entire interview on the show, so I&#8217;m posting the full, unedited version here. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning update: Protesters arrested, tased at capitol</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several protesters were hit with tasers and others were arrested last night at the capitol. The group &#8212; many part of the Occupy movement &#8212; had spent the day protesting around the capitol and disrupting legislative hearings to decry budget cuts. As night fell, many camped out in the capitol rotunda, and when the state [...]]]></description>
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