Campaign for a Healthy and Responsible Tennessee Responds to Governor Don Sundquist's Budget Veto.Assignment/Business Editors NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2001 Statement from Campaign for a Healthy and Responsible Tennessee Tennessee, state, United States Tennessee (tĕn`əsē', tĕn'əsē`), state in the south-central United States. (CHART) spokesperson Elizabeth Merkel regarding Governor Don Sundquist's decision to veto veto [Lat.,=I forbid], power of one functionary (e.g., the president) of a government, or of one member of a group or coalition, to block the operation of laws or agreements passed or entered into by the other functionaries or members. In the U.S. the budget previously passed by the Tennessee General Assembly The Tennessee General Assembly is the formal name of the legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Organization Constitutional structure According to the Tennessee State Constitution of 1870, the General Assembly is a bicameral legislature and consists of a : "We are extremely pleased with Governor Sundquist's decision to veto the proposed budget and stand up for the proper use of tobacco settlement dollars. As Governor Sundquist mentioned in his statement, the legislature's proposed budget was unconscionable Unusually harsh and shocking to the conscience; that which is so grossly unfair that a court will proscribe it. When a court uses the word unconscionable to describe conduct, it means that the conduct does not conform to the dictates of conscience. because it did not allocate To reserve a resource such as memory or disk. See memory allocation. a dime of Tennessee's tobacco settlement dollars for the programs for which it was intended: to help keep kids from smoking, to help adults quit, and to help tobacco farming communities make a transition to a new way of life. "Because of the governor's veto, our legislators have been given another opportunity to do the right thing by using a portion of the settlement dollars for those types of programs. By funding a comprehensive tobacco use-cessation and -prevention program, we can save thousands of lives and millions of dollars in health care costs. We realize the General Assembly has some difficult choices to make, but survey after survey has shown that the majority of Tennesseans agree that at least some of the tobacco settlement dollars should be spent to help solve some of the problems tobacco has caused and to help our farming communities." |
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