{"id":8405,"date":"2009-10-23T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2009-10-24T00:31:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T06:31:59","slug":"senate-amendment-would-increase-capital-outlay-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/senate-amendment-would-increase-capital-outlay-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate votes to consider further capital outlay cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Roundhouse in Santa Fe (Photo by Peter St. Cyr)<\/p><\/div>\n

The New Mexico Senate voted this afternoon to add a requirement that staff compile a list of at least $150 million in potentially cutable capital outlay projects to a bill that would make widespread reductions in state government. Now, the body is considering a second amendment that would use that money to reduce cuts to state agencies and avoid education cuts.<\/p>\n

The Senate is currently considering House Bill 17<\/a>, which passed the House on a vote of 37-31 late Thursday.<\/p>\n

The first amendment<\/a>, from Sen. Eric Griego<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, proposes the possible $150 million more in cuts to capital outlay projects than the House approved on Thursday<\/a>, though a decision on whether to make the additional cuts wouldn\u2019t come until the Legislature meets again in January.<\/p>\n

Griego has proposed a second amendment that would reduce the cuts to state agencies approved by the House and implement no cuts to education.<\/p>\n

Lt. Gov. Diane Denish<\/a> cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of the potential capital outlay cuts.<\/p>\n

Griego\u2019s second amendment proposes no cuts to education, rather than the less-than-1 percent approved by the House, and 3.5 percent cuts to most other state agencies, instead of the 7.6 percent approved by the House.<\/p>\n

Griego\u2019s second amendment has been temporarily held to allow senators time to look at the numbers he\u2019s proposing.<\/p>\n

Update, 4:55 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Griego has opted to withdraw his second amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe it has the support that we need to move forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A prior version of this posting incorrectly stated that Griego\u2019s first amendment would increase cuts to capital outlay projects by $150 million.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Mexico Senate voted this afternoon to add a requirement that staff compile a list of at least $150 million in potentially cutable capital outlay projects to a bill that would make widespread reductions in state government. Now, the body is considering a second amendment that would use that money to reduce cuts to state agencies and avoid education cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[118,125,107],"class_list":["post-8405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}