Kitzhaber puts school, college cuts on veto list.Byline: DAVID David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. STEVES The Register-Guard SALEM Salem, in the Bible Salem (sā`ləm) [Heb.,=peace], in the Bible, royal city of Melchizedek, traditionally identified with Jerusalem. Salem, city, India Salem, city (1991 pop. - Gov. John Kitzhaber John Albert Kitzhaber (born March 5 1947 in Colfax, Washington) is a physician, member of the Democratic Party and former two term Governor of Oregon. He graduated from South Eugene High School in 1965, Dartmouth College in 1969, and then Oregon Health & Science University with a added a fifth bill to his list of 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. targets Wednesday Wednesday: see week. , saying he was considering line-item changes to prevent $267 million in cuts to public schools and community colleges. The governor also announced details of his planned public hearing Friday, beginning at 10 a.m. Starting at 1 p.m., Kitzhaber will listen to testimony from anyone wishing to speak out on bills he is considering vetoing after last month's budget-rebalancing special session of the Legislature. The session was held to close an $860 million shortfall Shortfall The amount by which the capital required to fulfill a financial obligation exceeds available capital. Notes: Shortfall risk is often combated with an efficient hedging strategy created by a fund, group, institution, or individual. . Kitzhaber added House Bill 5091 to a list of four other bills he is considering canceling through his veto authority. With HB 5091, the governor said in a news release, he is considering line-item vetoes line-i·tem veto n. Authority, as of a government executive, to reject provisions of a bill individually. Also called item veto. of sections that eliminate $211 million from the budget for public schools and $56 million for community colleges. The Legislature had taken away that money because a related bill shifts the payments of those amounts out of the current 2001-03 budget, leaving the payments to be made in the 2003-05 spending cycle instead. Kitzhaber spokesman Tom Towslee said the line-item veto of the combined $267 million cut to schools and community colleges would be made only if the governor also vetoes the bill that shifts the payments. That way, he would have the discretion to spread out cuts - either across the board or by targeting specific program areas - instead of imposing them automatically on education. "If you're going to veto the shift, you've got to come up with $267 million in reductions," Towslee said. The governor is required to give notice five days before vetoing any bill. The other bills he is considering vetoing are: HB 4056 - It issues $50 million in bonds for education, to be repaid with cigarette-tax revenue. It also allows the sale of up to $175 million in lottery-backed bonds if revenues drop later in the 2001-03 budget cycle. SB 1022 - It shifts the state's final $211 million public-schools payment and $56 million community-colleges payment from the end of the 2001-03 biennium bi·en·ni·um n. pl. bi·en·ni·ums or bi·en·ni·a A two-year period. [Latin : bi-, two; see bi-1 + annus, year; see at- to the start of the 2003-05 biennium. HB 4055 - It takes $17.7 million from the Common School Fund. HB 4065 - It "sunsets" a 60-cent increase in the cigarette tax in 2009 unless the Legislature votes to keep it in place longer. Kitzhaber has until Aug. 9 to sign or veto bills before they automatically become law without his signature. VETO HEARING A public hearing on bills threatened with vetoes will begin with invited testimony at 10 a.m. Friday in the state Capitol's Hearing Room 50. Anyone can speak beginning at 1 p.m. |
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