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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, February 26, 2009
Contact: Josie Klingaman (515) 419-1038
House Republicans Put Iowans’ Suggestions in
Motion
(DES MOINES)— In order to bring more truth and transparency to the state budget process, House Republicans added a feature on their website designed to get Iowans’ input for budget savings. Today House Republicans followed through to implement some of those ideas.
Over the span of a month, House Republicans have received more than 500 submissions from Iowans. As part of the Republican plan to cut wasteful spending, Republicans are offering the following amendments on House File 414:
H-1093 by Reps. Raecker, Wagner and Helland
increases the cut to the Executive branch by $8 million by reducing the office
supply, service contracts and equipment purchases expenditure line items by $8
million.
H-1085 by Reps. Watts, Raecker, Alons
requires the Iowa Telecommunications and Technology Commission to develop a
request for proposal to sell or lease the Iowa Communications Network during FY
2010.
H-1086 by Reps. Raecker, Alons,
“Republicans have been diving into budgets,
weeding out waste and inefficiencies,” said House Republican Leader Kraig
Paulsen. “We’ve also been listening
to the ideas of Iowans. We
appreciate all the ideas that we have been given and are happy to start
incorporating them into real legislation.”
House File 414 is the deappropriations bill
which reduces Fiscal Year 2009 general fund appropriations by $30.3 million,
transfers $48 million into the general fund and makes $17.3 million of
supplemental appropriations.
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