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Showdown on Budget Cuts

Speaker Catherine Hanaway
Missouri House
Speaker Catherine Hanaway

By Steve Bell

Kansas City, MO – As the Missouri legislature enters a special session, House Speaker Catherine Hanaway explains the Republican position on budgets for mental health, medical care, social services, and education... both in terms of basic philosophy and in view of federal funds promised under the bush administration's tax cut bill.

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