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empty feeling (without a bond package),” said Sen. Charles Waddell (DLoudoun/Fairfax).
Gov. Wilder, in a press conference Feb. 25, announced that he is working with both the Senate and House leadership to revive his own bonds package. This could be done by reconsidering the failed bond packages in the House but would require more than a simple majority of votes on the floor to do so.
Gov. Wilder said he sees no need to include transportation in any bond package. Northern Virginia legislators say they cannot support a bond package without one but may be mollified as talks between the Assembly leaders and Wilder continued Feb. 25.
The call for a bond issue this year, especially for construction at colleges and universities, has been supported by both houses of the General Assembly and Wilder. State studies predict a 70,000 student increase in Virginia colleges and universities by the year 2000.
The House bond package incorporated nearly all of the Senate package but added $300 million for road construction. The House package also called for a statewide referendum on a one-half percen? sales tax increase to pay for the bonds and provide more than $100 million annually to fund Wilder’s disparity in education plan.
Debate in the House was focused into a battle of wills between House Majority leader C. Richard Cranwell (D-Vinton) and Senate Majority leader Hunter Andrews.
“If you vote for this (the Senate package) you are abrogating your responsibility to the Senate Finance Committee (headed by Andrews),” Del. Cranwell told his colleagues in the House.
Sen. Andrews masterminded the defeat of the House plan by not allowing the Finance Committee to vote on the measure before the deadline for action on revenue bills.
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