Times-Picayune: Senate rejects raid on Road Home dollars
Times-Picayune
July 23, 2010
…Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said the Senate did the right thing in rejecting the House package by a vote of 46-51.
"The House-passed war funding bill was loaded with excessive domestic spending projects -- almost as many as the cost of the actual funding of the war -- and it rescinded valuable Road Home money to pay for this extra spending," Vitter said. "This Senate vote sent the original, leaner Senate war funding bill, which kept the Road Home funding intact, back to the House."
But House Democrats are under pressure to deliver financing to alleviate teacher layoffs planned for the new school year as states and local school districts struggle to balance budgets.
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