Montana governor takes veto scalpel to infrastructure bill
Cuts remove 11 projects totalling $23 million from $1.2 billion bill.
Source: montanafreepress.org
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Cuts remove 11 projects totalling $23 million from $1.2 billion bill.
The mark-downs have rankled some lawmakers who object to his characterization of their projects as pork-barrel spending.
A legislative session characterized in part by a historic budget surplus ended, predictably, in a flurry of competing visions on how to spend $3 billion.
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