Post by pavel on Apr 22, 2016 10:03:37 GMT -6
JACKSON — This was the year Republicans seized and wielded a supermajority in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature.
Gaining stronger control in the 2015 elections helped the GOP achieve long-held goals in 2016, including appointing superintendents and phasing out the franchise tax.
But the 2016 legislative session was at times bitterly divisive.
Republicans ramrodded through some measures over intense opposition, and flagging tax revenues meant budget cuts few embraced. Efforts to raise money for roads and bridges and rewrite the state’s K-12 school funding formula collapsed among internal GOP dissension. Democrats, especially in the House, tried to obstruct business with every procedural trick they knew, but their numbers were too few to stop much.
The first year of this four-year term suggests Republicans will be able to get what they want when united.
Read more: www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/21/miss-legislature-ends-session/83365606/
Gaining stronger control in the 2015 elections helped the GOP achieve long-held goals in 2016, including appointing superintendents and phasing out the franchise tax.
But the 2016 legislative session was at times bitterly divisive.
Republicans ramrodded through some measures over intense opposition, and flagging tax revenues meant budget cuts few embraced. Efforts to raise money for roads and bridges and rewrite the state’s K-12 school funding formula collapsed among internal GOP dissension. Democrats, especially in the House, tried to obstruct business with every procedural trick they knew, but their numbers were too few to stop much.
The first year of this four-year term suggests Republicans will be able to get what they want when united.
Read more: www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/21/miss-legislature-ends-session/83365606/