| Pinal Legislators split on Medicaid: Pinal’s Shope, Pratt two of nine R's to back Brewer | | Sat, Jun 15, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | As two of nine House Republicans to vote in favor of the $8.8 billion state budget that passed early Thursday morning, District 8 Reps. T.J. Shope and Frank Pratt were not too popular with fellow GOP lawmakers later that day.“It’s not easy going against the majority in the caucus,” Shope Read More Tags: Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer, Arizona Legislature, Budget, T.J. Shope, Frank Pratt | - Share It!
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| $8.8B budget passes | | Sat, Jun 15, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | PHOENIX — The Arizona Legislature embraced a signature component of President Barack Obama’s health care law Thursday after a drawn out battle that divided the state’s Republican leadership and saw GOP Gov. Jan Brewer work closely with Democratic lawmakers to expand Medicaid access.The Legislature passed Brewer’s $8.8 billion state budget Read More Tags: Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer, Arizona Legislature, Budget | - Share It!
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| Arizona Republicans advance budget, Medicaid plan | | Thu, Jun 13, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | (AP) A newly formed coalition of Democrats and GOP moderates forced a state budget and Medicaid expansion proposal through the Arizona Senate and House during an hours-long debate that carried into early Thursday. Tags: Arizona, Arizona Legislature, Budget, Medicaid expansion | - Share It!
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| Ariz. lawmakers slow work as big 3 issues remain | | Sun, May 5, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | The Arizona Legislature has gone from the fast track to stuck in the mud as lawmakers have become bogged down by the three key issues: Medicaid, sale taxes and the state budget.The stalemate has moved the public work of the Legislature behind closed doors as leaders try to hash out Read More Tags: Arizona, Arizona Legislature, Medicaid, sale tqaxes, budget | - Share It!
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| New Arizona gun law draws outcry from Democrats | | Wed, May 1, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | Arizona is doing more to protect guns from people than it is to protect its citizens from guns, legislative Democrats said Tuesday as they slammed the Republican-led Legislature and governor for approving a new gun law.Their comments came a day after GOP Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the first Read More Tags: Arizona, Arizona Legislature, HB2455, Gun bill | - Share It!
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| Arizona abortion issue heightens Medicaid standoff | | Wed, May 1, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | Democrats are growing frustrated over Gov. Jan Brewer’s struggle to get her Medicaid-expansion proposal into the Legislature and say efforts to appease reluctant Republican lawmakers with anti-abortion legislation threaten their support.The governor’s team is working to craft abortion legislation under pressure from one of the state’s most powerful lobbying groups, Read More Tags: Arizona, Arizona Legislature, Medicaid Expansion bill | - Share It!
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| Arizona Democrats decry GOP bills, say they target jobless | | Wed, Apr 3, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | State Senate Democratic leaders assailed Republican legislators on Monday for pushing bills they say hurt unemployed Arizonans when the Legislature should be helping them.One of the bills they blasted, which will make it harder for jobless residents to get unemployment benefits, was signed last week by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer.House Read More Tags: Arizona, Unemployed, HB 2147, Jan Brewer | - Share It!
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| Two Reports Question Brewer's Plan: Sales tax overhaul could hurt general fund | | Mon, Mar 18, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | PHOENIX — Two new reports have raised more questions about Gov. Jan Brewer’s contentious effort to overhaul the state’s complex sales tax collection system, both raising the prospect the state’s general fund could take a big hit to revenues if it is enacted. Tags: Arizona, Arizona Legislature, Tax overhaul, Jan Brewer | - Share It!
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| Arizona bill would allow teachers to carry guns at schools | | Wed, Feb 20, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne held a news conference Tuesday morning to formally announce legislation to allow teachers to carry guns at school.Horne and Rep. David Stevens, R-Sierra Vista, filed House Bill 2656 late last week. It is based on a proposal Horne made shortly after the school massacre in Read More Tags: Arizona, Legislature, Guns in school, Tom Horne, Attorney General | - Share It!
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