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State's Medicaid stalemate continues
Thursday, July 3, 2008 3:47 PM CDT The Mississippi House and Senate this morning remained stalemated on solving Medicaid's budget shortfall after returning Wednesday from another break in a special session that ...
House passes bill to prevent Medicaid cuts
By Bobby Harrison Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - The Mississippi House passed legislation Friday to prevent Gov.
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Legislators return to session with no compromise in sight
BY BOBBY HARRISON Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - The Legislature returns Thursday to the Capitol for the ongoing special session, but still with no agreement on how to fund a $90 million deficit in the ...
Amicable Medicaid deal eludes lawmakers
A long-term funding solution for Medicaid remained unresolved today after a meeting between Gov.
Legislative expenses exceed $19M
Expenses for the Mississippi Legislature were up about $1 million to $19 million for the 12-month period that ended in April.
Legislative tab tops $19M for year's time
Mississippi taxpayers are footing the bill for more than $19 million in legislative expenses, including salaries and travel expenses, over a one-year period that ended in April, according to the state auditor's ...
House, Senate wrangle over passing unemployment pay increase bill
Raising the pay for workers who lose their jobs is among the measures state legislators need to work out in the special session that began last month to resolve differences the House and Senate have been ...
Lawmakers Negotiate On Employment Agency, Jobless Pay
Voter identification hit another roadblock Tuesday in the Mississippi House, and lawmakers appeared to do little work on fixing Medicaid's finances even as Gov.
House authorizes bonds to help bring laboratory to Flora
Members of the Mississippi House authorized $88 million in bonds Wednesday to try to lure a multimillion-dollar project to Mississippi.
House passes two bills, adjourns
BY BOBBY HARRISON Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - To almost no one's surprise, the state House and Senate took different paths Wednesday in acting on Gov.
Jobless benefits added to special session agenda
By Bobby Harrison Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - Gov. Haley Barbour extended the ongoing special session Thursday to allow legislators to take up the issue of increasing unemployment benefits.
Senate continues work in special session
The House and Senate have both passed a bill to allow private financing to build toll roads.
Special session: Debates reopening
Lawmakers return to the state Capitol today for a special session that will require more work than they expected, generate another round of debate over controversial topics and cost taxpayers thousands of ...
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Subplots in advertising issue to be on display during special session
“I have a lot of friends in the media.”
BY BOBBY HARRISON Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - Numerous subplots lurk beneath the issue of the Legislature regulating the expenditure of taxpayer money on advertising. via Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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Barbour, McCoy tussle over ad contracts, employment agency
“We need you, Mississippians, your help to make sure that the state doesn't do something stupid about employment security”
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS The Associated Press JACKSON - Gov. Haley Barbour says some lawmakers are being "foolish and wrongheaded" to tie the fate of an employment agency to a dispute over state advertising. via Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Positive note ends unfinished '08 session
“We didn't always agree, but we didn't get mad.”
BY BOBBY HARRISON Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, was sitting on the House floor minutes after the 2008 legislative session ended Friday morning when Lt. via Djournal.com
Rainy-day fund fight may prompt special session
“It is my every desire to get this completed, but if that's not possible”
Stalled budget talks at the state Capitol have some lawmakers predicting the session could end without agreement on Mississippi's estimated $5 billion budget. via The Clarion-Ledger
House puts 'sin tax' hike on the table
“If Medicaid is so important, why don't we place all the cards on the table face up?”
BY BOBBY HARRISON Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - The Mississippi House decided Friday that a tax increase on cigarettes and liquor should be considered in negotiations to solve the Medicaid shortfall. via Djournal.com
Muddle of a bill OK'd in House
“I am opposed to abortion and will continue to vote that way, but I don't know what I'm voting for and neither do most of you”
Mississippi House members on Thursday signed off on a bill most indicated they didn't fully understand that could further discourage abortions and possibly put the state in conflict with federal privacy laws. via The Clarion-Ledger