April 29, 2005

Statehouse Digest

By SARA HEBEL

BUDGET STANDOFF: An Alabama state senator says that he feels so strongly about wanting to give $46-million more to the state's colleges that he will hold up all appropriations for education until his colleagues agree to allocate the additional higher-education funds. As chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Jim Preuitt can control what comes up for a vote, and his colleagues are worried that the stalemate will not end before mid-May, when the Legislature's regular session must conclude. Mr.

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