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In a Tuesday evening press conference at the N.C. General Assembly, Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced an agreement to abandon, for now, efforts to legalize casinos through the state budget.
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2023 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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At long last, the North Carolina House and Senate are set to vote on a conference budget this week after months of delays.
Published: Thursday, December 21st, 2023 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses factors separating the NC House and Senate as they negotiate a state budget deal.
Published: Sunday, November 26th, 2023 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Raleigh, NC – Today, after final Senate approval of the 2023 Appropriations Act, Governor Roy Cooper announced that although he will not sign the budget, he will allow it become law without his signature.
Published: Saturday, October 14th, 2023 @ 4:58 am
By: ENC NOW
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The nonprofit slated to receive $1.4 billion in the Senate budget plan touted the failing VinFast as a successful example to emulate
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $1.4 billion allocation for a non-profit called NCInnovation in the state Senate’s budget plan has raised some eyebrows. Given that this appropriation to the barely five-year-old non-profit organization would amount to nearly five percent of the entire state General Fund budget, it should.
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 1:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House, Senate, and governor have each released their budget proposals for the upcoming biennium
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2023 @ 8:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Included in the North Carolina Senate budget proposal is repealing the State Board of Elections’ (NCSBE) authorization to join the Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC).
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 8:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us most here in North Carolina, and is distilled for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video.
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 7:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NC Senate Majority Whip, Senator Jim Perry and Representative Chris Humphrey announced they have secured budget funding for the following Lenoir County projects and organizations.
Published: Monday, November 22nd, 2021 @ 1:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The governor has leveraged the language of the N.C. Emergency Management Act to indefinitely and unilaterally issue majorly disruptive edicts.
Published: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 @ 11:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate rolled out a budget proposal this week that would expand school choice across the state while raising teacher pay and seeking to remedy student learning losses due to closed classrooms because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, July 1st, 2021 @ 7:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A week ago, the state Senate passed its version of a $23.9 billion General Fund budget for the next fiscal year. The Senate and House still must resolve their differences in a conference report, pass it, and send it to Gov. Roy Cooper.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @ 10:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week the Senate passed a budget that maintains the responsible budget growth that has defined Republican fiscal policies since 2011 and prioritizes tax relief, state employees who haven't received equitable treatment in previous years, and health care reform.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 5:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health doesn’t understand why the North Carolina Senate wants to cut its funding.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2019 @ 11:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) voted in favor of the Senate's two-year budget agreement that provides increased defense funding and $125 million in additional funding for North Carolina's Hurricane Matthew relief efforts
Published: Saturday, February 10th, 2018 @ 12:43 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr announced that the Senate's two-year budget agreement will allow North Carolina to be eligible for more than $125 million in additional federal assistance for North Carolina's long-term Hurricane Matthew recovery efforts
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 8:22 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis in asking Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel the Senate's scheduled August state work period if meaningful progress has not been made on fixing health care, funding the government, dealing with the debt ceiling, passing a budget resolution, and improving our tax code
Published: Friday, June 30th, 2017 @ 5:24 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The North Carolina House education budget is scratch made, taking few cues from the Senate's plan, Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, told Carolina Journal on Thursday
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 @ 12:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House education budget is scratch made, taking few cues from the Senate's plan, Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, told Carolina Journal on Thursday
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2017 @ 9:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two numbers not mentioned during Tuesday's press conference rolling out the Senate budget for the next two fiscal years may be the most important: 30 and 72
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2017 @ 7:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined Senator David Perdue (R-GA) and colleagues on the Senate floor to discuss fixing Washington's broken budget process.
Published: Sunday, October 2nd, 2016 @ 3:05 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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State Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) voted today in support of the final bipartisan state budget compromise with the House of Representatives and Governor Pat McCrory
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2016 @ 8:44 am
By: Bill Cook
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The NC General Assembly is moving quickly toward resolve its 2016 budget. The House & Senate have each passed its own version of House Bill #1030 (the budget bill).
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 3:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On June 2 and 3, 2016, the NC Senate passed the Sixth Edition of House Bill #1030, which is its version of the 2016 Appropriations Act. The two versions of the Budget bill have several important differences.
Published: Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 @ 12:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that he has reached an agreement with Senate and House leaders on the spending amount for a revised state budget. At a morning breakfast meeting with the Governor at the Executive Mansion, House and Senate leadership agreed upon a budget spending amount...
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Concerns about the costs of a fiscal transparency measure in the Senate budget raised by local governments and some McCrory administration officials are misplaced, says Sen. Andrew Brock, R-Davie, who introduced the plan.
Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2015 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are "widespread differences" that are "not what you would call easy" to resolve between House and Senate health care budgets, is state Rep. William Brisson's assessment of budget deliberations in the N.C. General Assembly.
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the last few weeks, debates in the North Carolina legislature have focused on the budget and the stark differences between the House and Senate versions. This week I would like to discuss more of the politics of the budget process and what that means for spending measures.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On a steamy Tuesday afternoon in Raleigh, the NC House of Representatives voted 112-0 not to concur with the Senate's version of the 2015-2016 Budget (House Bill #97). Now, hard core negotiating begins.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 10:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Senate passed a balanced $21.47 billion state budget on Thursday, June 18, 2015.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 11:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Senate's budget plan would increase state funding for public schools by $450 million over the next two years.
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 12:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leaders on Monday began rolling out their proposed $21.47 billion General Fund budget that has some stark differences from the spending plan put forth by their House counterparts.
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2015 @ 6:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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By the middle of June, state Senate leaders have promised to pass a budget for the next two fiscal years, and they swear it will be a lot different from the one that got through the House just before Memorial Day - less spending, more saving, fewer deals for special interests, and (possibly) even mo
Published: Saturday, June 6th, 2015 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) today issued the following statement regarding the passage of the Senate’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget resolution.
Published: Friday, March 27th, 2015 @ 7:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We and many other grassroots entities - have been howlin' mad about Gov. Pat's $40 million corporate welfare giveaway.
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 10:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The office of Sen. Bill Cook (R-District 1) announced Friday, September 19, 2014, that he has been appointed to serve as an advisory member on the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee by Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham).
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 8:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The General Assembly released its conference report on the 2015 state budget late Wednesday night, with appropriations and special provisions largely favorable to counties.
Published: Friday, August 1st, 2014 @ 3:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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McCrory rift with Senate may stall NC budget. Ya Think ???? That was the eloquently succinct and prescient headline atop the latest missive from McClatchy-Charlotte's genial geriatric Jim Morrill.
Published: Saturday, July 26th, 2014 @ 2:33 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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They call this time of year the "dog days" of summer, long days filled with heat and humidity. When our legislature is still in session lawmakers get dog-tired, resulting in a lot of barking due to short tempers.
Published: Saturday, July 19th, 2014 @ 9:09 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In budget reconciliation talks, the Senate has backed away from their insistence on dropping teacher tenure in exchange for pay raises.
Published: Monday, July 14th, 2014 @ 2:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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