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Gov. Jerry Brown signs 'honest but painful' budget
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| Last Edited | Jason Jul 01, 2011 05:27am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Friday, July 1, 2011 11:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Reporting from Sacramento -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed California's second on-time, balanced budget in a decade — one that will sharply curb the services the state offers and that relies on a windfall of revenue.
Unlike his predecessor, Brown used his line-item veto power relatively sparingly, dashing $270 million in spending, mostly from railway projects. He also reduced money for state commissions on higher education and women, eliminated funding for a data system to track teacher performance and further trimmed court spending.
The governor enacted the $129-billion package, with a general fund of $86-billion, in his Capitol office with little fanfare. "This is an honest but painful budget," he said in a statement.
The signing, attended by the Legislature's two Democratic leaders, also marked the official concession that Brown had failed to deliver a bipartisan spending plan. The same partisanship that had entangled his two predecessors also ensnared Brown, despite all the "experience, knowledge and know-how" he boasted of on the campaign trail last year.
Democratic lawmakers passed the package earlier this week, using a new voter-approved law that allowed them to do so with a simple majority vote. They bridged the final $4 billion that remained of a more than $25-billion deficit by assuming that an equivalent amount of unanticipated money will land in state coffers. Tax revenue has far outpaced projections so far this year. |
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