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federal government completes its work on balancing the budget. Medicaid is the fastest growing program in state government, he said, and long-term care takes 70 percent of the Medicaid spending.
“The Medicaid budget is bleeding us dry,” he said. “1 don’t have a sound bite solution for that.”
Sen. Saslaw predicted a bill requiring parental notification for abortions for minors will reach the senate floor this session. He stopped short of predicting its passage, but others have.
In Richmond several sub-committees held hearings on issues of domestic violence last week. Attorney General James Gilmore has called for mandatory arrests in these cases. The assembly is expected to consider this and other proposals to deal vt'ith family violence.
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