looks like Mississippi still needs to clear out some deadwood from the Hurricane
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From: subana
Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 8:23 PM
To: net buddies
Subject: {Dawgs/Dittos} Mississippi votes to accept all funds, whether or not
Barbour agrees
Bypassing Haley Barbour, Mississippi House votes to accept all recovery package
funds.
Last month, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) criticized "excess spending"
in the federal recovery package, saying he (like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal)
would reject $50 million in unemployment benefits for part-time workers. But
yesterday, the state legislature passed a bill circumventing Barbour:
House Concurrent Resolution 64 certifies the state's intent to request and
use all of the money, even if Barbour rejects some of it. It cleared the full
House after a three-hour partisan debate, with Democrats advocating the bill's
passage and Republicans arguing against it. The bill cleared the House with 69
lawmakers voting for it, and 52 voting against it. Senate Democrats have
introduced a similar resolution that urges Barbour to accept all of the money.
Barbour is now pressing the state Senate to reject the House legislation.
Curiously, he claimed that extending unemployment benefits would "would mean
fewer jobs for our working people."
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/05/barbour-state-house-stimulus/
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