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Blog: Compromise in Senate leads to passage of two tax bills
Story by Dana Haynes
The dean of the Capitol press corps, Peter Wong of the Statesman Journal, just moved on line.
The bottom line: After two tax bills failed in the Senate on Wednesday, they passed today on a strictly party-line vote: 18 Democrats said aye, and 11 Republicans said nay (one GOP member was absent).
Democratic Sen. Mark Hass of Beaverton joined 11 Republicans on Wednesday to block approval of the corporate tax increases in House Bill 3405, Wong wrote today. But Hass switched his vote today after an assurance that permanent increases in the corporate tax after 2012 will be diverted into the states general reserve fund.
These two bills which target higher-income households and corporations netting more than $250,000 annually now go to the governor to sign.
Which means were days away from knowing the proposed budget for Oregons 17 independent community colleges.
Well keep you posted as the story unfolds.
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做厙TV Dana Haynes
Dana Haynes, joined PCC in 2007 as the manager of the Office of Public Affairs, directing the college's media and government relations. Haynes spent the previous 20 years as a reporter, columnist and editor for Oregon newspapers, including ... more »