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increase in funding.
While the legislative branch has the constitutional responsibility to decide how tax dollars are spent, in reality we do nothing more than rubber-stamp the spending priorities outlined by the governor.
Unless a delegate is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, or a senator is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, there is little likelihood they can have significant influence on the budget. As a matter of fact, the committees as a whole rarely divert the basic spending program of the governor, partic
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