john becker
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House Majority Leader on crucial Hospital Fee bill negotiations: ‘We’re so, so super close’
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Weeks of tense negotiations and occasional lawmaker blowups are coming to an end, one way or another, over a linchpin bill that in its last iteration would raise $1.8 billion in bond money for state transportation upgrades, save state hospitals from a proposed $500 million cut and lower the state spending limit in future years…
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House GOP leadership chosen, Rankin nearly quits JBC
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Saying he wanted signs of support from his Republican colleagues before he agreed to continue serving on the Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, that’s what state Rep. Bob Rankin of Carbondale received during a party leadership caucus at the state Capitol Thursday, Nov. 10. Rankin, who has been the House GOP member on the JBC for…