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By around $4 billion each. georgia house leader larry oneil pushed a budget that cuts corporate taxes 33% while increasing health care costs for state workers by more than 20%. nice guy. iowa governor tom branstad, he wants a corporate income tax cut and a freeze on school spending. not quite as rad dal, but rad dal. sam brown beck from the senate to the governors chair in kansas, eliminating the corporate income tax all together while cutting $50 million to education. so much more rural schools...

In ohio, similar shows of pro-union support where state workers there facing off against senate bill number five that would curb their collective bargaining rights. critics call it union busting. check out this close call on i-70 in st. louis. police trying to get a handle on post-accident traffic get their squad car -- well, you see it right there. in a replay, if you look closely, this is the replay, you can see one of the officers jumping the median rail to safety as the cruiser goes spinni...

Democratic governor who wants to cut their benefit. correspondent shannon bream shows us what happened. >> reporter: across the country, state lawmakers struggling to balance troubled budget by re-examining the pay, benefit of collective bargaining right of state workers are locked in contentious battle of republican employee union. republican governors like scott walker and ohio john kasich have taken scorching criticism over the mood. >> but now marylands democratic governor omalley is feeling...

Maryland where public employee unions are upset with a democratic governor who wants to cut their benefit. correspondent shannon bream shows us what happened. >> reporter: across the country, state lawmakers struggling to balance troubled budget by re-examining the pay, benefit of collective bargaining right of state workers are locked in contentious battle of republican employee union. republican governors like scott walker and ohio john kasich have taken scorching criticism over the mood. >> b...

Right now in maryland democratic governor martin omalley taking a lot of heat for wanting state workers to kick in more for their pensions. shannon bream is live in washington with more on this. what exactly is the governor proposing here? >> reporter: lets take a look under his proposal employees who stay at the current contribution levels will have lower pension benefits if the future or they could choose to increase their contribution from 5 to 7% and they will maintain the future benefits. v...

And requires most state workers to contribute more money to their requirement and health care. great news about congresswoman gabrielle giffords of arizona. one of the doctors calls her condition remarkable and says her speech and memory has improved and she is walking. giffords was shot in the head while meeting constituents in january. six people were killed in that attack. nearly 30 years after the assassination attempt on president ronald reagan, the secret service has released an audiot...

It almost felt like a war zone in wisconsins capitol building today as police removed angry protesters and death threats were hurled at some lawmakers. the move is not good in madison after the wisconsin assembly, the other branch of state government has now pushed through the wildly controversial bill that passed the senate yesterday. it strips collective bargaining rights from state workers. earlier today, protests got so heated police actually locked down the entire capitol for two hours. >> ...

Would curb collective bargaining rights for most state workers. going to governor scott walker for his signature and he plans on signing it. protesters were outside the chamber yesterday chanting as we have heard throughout some of these protests, shame, shame, you see here the police had to remove some of the protesters. thousands converged on the doors of the capitol during the actual vote. the only democrat present when a joint senate assembly agreed to the bill has now filed a legal complain...

Drergation of mr. sheens rights. losing zifl, bye. calls the allegations completely false. number five, three big east conference officials dropping their conference tournament. dropping right out of it after blowing two or three calls at the end of yesterdays rutgers saint johns game. number four spokesman for gabby giffords says she will indeed attend her husbands shuttle launch of endeavour. set commander. number three the italian prime minister silvio enter list columbus scone making first p...

Bargaining. actually he put a legislative nail into the casket hes building for workmans compensation. a nationwide effort, i think, to go after workmans rights, collective bargaining. we were the first state in the union to adopt collective bargaining for state workers. and its worked well in our state. we like it. we feel strongly that we should support our state employees as they have supported us. >> all right, senator, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. next, congress is hunting for rad...