{"id":1534,"date":"2004-03-02T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T19:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/02\/virginia_news_b-2\/"},"modified":"2004-03-02T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T19:02:40","slug":"virginia_news_b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/02\/virginia_news_b-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VIRGINIA NEWS:  Budget Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Finance Committee has published a comparative analysis of the House and Senate budget bills.  The two documents are <a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/commonwealthcommonsense\/major_funding_differences_revised.pdf\">Download file<\/a>&#8220;>here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/commonwealthcommonsense\/housesenate_budget_comparisons_revised.pdf\">Download file<\/a>&#8220;>here<\/a>.   No guarantees as to their accuracy.  A Senate Finance staff member said a more detailed analysis should be available in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>(If you prefer, you can get the documents on the Committee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leg3.state.va.us\/quickplace\/sfc2004\/main.nsf\/h_Toc\/4c12e5b390d5472285256de5006c79ec\/?OpenDocument\">web site<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The two documents don\u2019t always seem to agree with one another.  For example, the table suggests the House bill adds $72 million to K-12 education, whereas the bullet-pointed analysis suggests the House is actually cutting K-12 education by $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Call your legislators with questions, concerns and most of all, YOUR OPINIONS.  Find your legislator <a href=\"http:\/\/conview.state.va.us\/whosmy\/constinput.asp\">here<\/a>.  Below are the budget conferees:<\/p>\n<p>BUDGET CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS:<br \/>\nThe Honorable John H. Chichester<br \/>\n(804) 698-7528<br \/>\ndistrict28@sov.state.va.us<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable William C. Wampler, Jr.<br \/>\n(804) 698-7540<br \/>\ndistrict40@sov.state.va.us<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable Charles J. Colgan<br \/>\n(804) 698-7529<br \/>\ndistrict29@sov.state.va.us<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable Walter A. Stosch<br \/>\n(804) 698-7512<br \/>\ndistrict12@sov.state.va.us<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable Vincent F. Callahan, Jr.<br \/>\n(804) 698-1034<br \/>\nDel_Callahan@house.state.va.us<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable Lacey E. Putney<br \/>\n(804) 698-1019<br \/>\nDel_Putney@house.state.va.us<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable Phillip A. Hamilton, Chair<br \/>\n(804) 698-1093<br \/>\nDel_Hamilton@house.state.va.us<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable M. Kirkland Cox<br \/>\n(804) 698-1066<br \/>\nDel_Cox@house.state.va.us<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable Johnny S. Joannou<br \/>\n(804) 698-1079<br \/>\nno email<\/p>\n<p>SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE<br \/>\nThe Honorable William J. Howell<br \/>\n(804) 698-1028<br \/>\nDel_Howell@house.state.va.us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Finance Committee has published a comparative analysis of the House and Senate budget bills. The two documents are Download file&#8220;>here and Download file&#8220;>here. No guarantees as to their accuracy. A Senate Finance staff member said a more detailed analysis should be available in a few days. (If you prefer, you can get the&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/02\/virginia_news_b-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}