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Issue Position: Fiscal Responsibility

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012

-Voted to reduce state spending rather than increase taxes.

--Rejected the tax increase option even when the state faced a record $4 billion budget deficit.

Supported a thorough review of welfare spending and eligibility in order to save hundreds of millions of dollars.

-Appointed chair of the new Senate Inter-governmental Operations Committee, which has the responsibility of reviewing plans to consolidate or eliminate state entities and programs to save money and improve efficiency.


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