The House speaker says the Haslam administration’s contingency plan will “give us some idea of what we could rein back in” when lawmakers take up the task of writing next year’s state government spending plan.
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CORRECTION: This post originally misreported the dollar-amount in proposed cuts to the TennCare budget. The correct figure is $2,253,687,900. TNReport regrets the error and apologizes for any confusion it may have caused.
Tennessee government…
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Gov. Bill Haslam said he expects the federal government to target programs instead of issuing across-the-board funding cuts to states as part of efforts to reduce the deficit this fall.
The governor made the…
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Memo from Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Mark Emkes; August 18, 2011:
TO: All Agency Heads and Budget Officers
FROM: Mark A. Emkes, Commissioner of Finance and Administration
SUBJECT: Federal Program…
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Gov. Bill Haslam has been announcing hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for bike trails, landscaping and other projects. The state Department of Transportation expects to spend $12 million on such projects this year.
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Press Release from the Office of Gov. Phil Bredesen, June 4, 2010:
NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen today requested a Secretarial designation of natural disaster for agriculture for eight additional counties in middle and…
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Violent 14-18-year-old perpetrators of rape and child molestation could be added to the registry for 25 years if they’re determined at “high risk” of re-offending.
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Also on Monday night, the House of Represents passed a resolution denouncing the federal health care law after debating for almost two hours.
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Statement from Gov. Phil Bredesen on passage of the “Tennessee First to the Top Act” Jan. 15, 2010:
“This has been a historic week for public education in Tennessee. I offer my sincere thanks…
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Letter from Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, to Tennessee Attorney General Robert Cooper, 5 Jan. 2010:
Dear General Cooper:
As you are aware, on December 24th the United States Senate passed the Patient Protection…
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Lawmakers in more than a dozen states say federal health care reform efforts step all over the Tenth Amendment, but Attorney General Robert Cooper says he’ll wait to see the final outcome in Washington before deciding if the state has a strong enough legal argument to try blocking it.
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