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Story Search Results for Carl Bearden

12/15/2003 - Budget Figures Disputed:
House Budget Committee Carl Bearden admits the state will have a budget shortfall, but estimates in a worse case scenario 330-million...almost 700 million less than the Governor's projections for fiscal year 2005.
12/01/2003 - Showdown over education withholdings set for Supreme Court:
House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said that it was a sad thing that schools had to resort to legal action to deal with unnecessary withholdings.
11/6/2003 - Withholdings unlikely to be released:
But, House Budget Chairman Carl Bearden disagrees.
11/17/2003 - Education petition criticized:
"I would challenge anyone saying that the cost is more for putting it up on the website because it didn't incur any extra funds to do it," Rep. Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles said.
10/06/2003 - House Budget Chairman Calls on Holden to Release Some of Withholdings, Budget Director Says too Early:
House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said that Missouri's economic growth will be sustained and calls for a reevaluation of the need for Holden's withholdings.
9/22/2003 - Impact of Missouri Revenue Increases Disputed:
Some Missouri Republicans, however, have expressed greater optimism about the revenue-collection increases. House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, pointed out that revenue increases in the typically slower months of July and August show great promise for the state.
9/17/2003 - Statehouse Bathrooms:
The House Budget Committee chairman - Rep. Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles -said he questioned the project, but received no "hard, straight answers", as to whether the state signed a contract for the bathroom renovations. If not, he proposes withholding funding until Missouri's budget is more stable.
8/28/2003 - Spam Spammed:
Representative Carl Bearden says the bill is better than nothing.
5/7/2003 - House and Senate Reach Budget Compromise:
The chairman of the House Budget committee Carl Bearden disagrees.
5/6/2003 - Budget Compromise Reached:
The House gave in and is no longer pushing the lump sum plan...House budget chairman Carl Bearden.
5/07/2003 - Conference committee budget to go to House floor Thursday:
House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said the new budget plan would require $150 million in additional revenue. He said he expects the legislature to pass at least $154 million using revenue packages currently under consideration.
4/28/2003 - House Votes for Life Sciences Trust Fund:
The chairman of the House budget committee, Carl Bearden points out the money won't be set aside until 2007.
3/3/2003 - Missouri Government News for Week of March 3, 2003:
JEFFERSON CITY - The oldest operating prison west of the Mississippi may stay open another year, according to House budget committee Chair Carl Bearden. The Jefferson City Correctional Center, which opened in 1836 as the Missouri State Penitentiary, was scheduled to be replaced by a new facility next year. With a tight budget, the Department of Corrections may have to wait another year.
3/18/2003 - House gives first approval to budget:
House Budget Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said he could not tell how much money would go to each college or university, but that the money would be there for the coordinating board to allocate.
3/13/2003 - House Budget Committee approves lump-sum appropriations bill:
In a compromise with Democrats, House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said he would allow lawmakers to vote for each department budget appropriation separately.
3/13/2003 - Republican move upsets Democrats:
Budget Chairman Carl Bearden says he will take the Democrats' suggestion to divide the bill into consideration.
3/12/2003 - House Budget Plan Would Ax Spending, Force Departments to Choose Cuts:
This is a result of House Speaker Catherine Hanaway and House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden deciding not to continue with the process of cutting Missouri's budget program by program.
3/10/2003 - Report shows Republican cuts haven't gone nearly deep enough to balance budget:
House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said that meant cuts to state programs were not nearly over. Those cuts will likely be announced by the end of next week, as the House traditionally tries to pass a budget before its spring recess.
3/07/2003 - Proposed Cuts Threaten 11 Largest Motor Vehicle Offices:
House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said some of the money for the Revenue Department could be restored to next year's budget later in the legislative process, but that Fischer would need to be forthcoming with information about ideas for cuts.
3/05/2003 - Lawmakers approve an investigation into allegations of a Holden administration gag order:
Budget Director Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said in the committee that he has not had cooperation from some departments when asking directors to prioritize their core programs.
3/05/2003 - Missouri's budget picture among the worst in the country for 2003-2004:
Releasing prisoners is something lawmakers in South Carolina are considering as well after that state's Corrections Department suggested it release 4,000 in an effort to cut costs. In Missouri, Gov. Holden has vowed not to grant inmates early releases. But House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said the Corrections Department has been releasing certain prisoners as much as six months early since September as part of an effort to cut costs.
3/03/2003 - Summer school funding targeted for cuts:
House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said schools should not be allowed to double-count summer school students.
2/19/2003 - Lower education receives brunt of cuts.:
The committee made the cuts in response to the spending cap House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, placed on the education budget. The cap requires the appropriations committee to cut about $100 million for the 2004 fiscal year.
2/19/2003 - Senate approves using $150 million in borrowed funds for '03 :
House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said the Senate plan could be a better deal for Missouri taxpayers then the one he helped push through the House. This is because it does not tie the loans to tobacco.
2/17/2003 - Missouri Government News for Week of February 17, 2003:
JEFFERSON CITY - Less than four years ago, Carl Bearden was a St. Charles County commissioner, absorbed with local political issues like streetlights and noisy neighbors.
2/17/2003 - Bearden's Leadership To Be Tested On Budget:
JEFFERSON CITY - Rep. Carl Bearden may help hold the reins of Missouri's $19 billion budget, but just four years ago he was fielding calls about barking dogs and broken streetlights.
2/17/2003 - House budget chairman asks lawmakers to cut spending in 2004:
House budget chairman Carl Bearden is asking lawmakers to cut spending next fiscal year. Elizabeth Gill has the story in Jefferson City.
2/13/2003 - House passes Republican plan to use tobacco money:
House Budget Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said the governor agreed to a $150 million bond issue, but did not make a commitment on where the other cuts would come from.
2/12/2003 - House approves less than half the governor's bond issue request:
House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said the remaining deficit should be closed with cuts from elsewhere in the state budget, not education. He said Republicans have already compromised by allowing the governor to spend $100 million of a loan secured by nearly 40 years of future tobacco settlement revenues.
2/10/2003 - With time running short, Governor, Republicans, closer to budget deal:
House Budget Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said the Republican controlled legislature won't do that unless they have some assurances about how and when that money will be spent
2/04/2003 - Republicans offer alternative to tobacco bonds:
While the plan does not outline detailed cuts to specific expenses or departments, House Budget Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said he looked at random expenditures that could be cut to come up with the sum.
1/28/2003 - Holden: education will be cut if lawmakers do not cash tobacco bonds:
House Budget Chair Carl Bearden said he has not introduced the administration's proposal as a formal bill because he has "unanswered questions" and is waiting for a statement of support from the Board of Public Buildings.
1/27/2003 - Holden to legislators: pass tobacco bond or I'll cut 10 percent from education:
House budget committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said he and other Republicans had an open mind about borrowing money against the state's share of the tobacco settlement. But he disagreed with the governor's approach.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of December 22, 2003:
Meanwhile, Republican House Budget Chairman Carl Bearden says the state is looking at a shortfall in the next fiscal year, but says Gov. Bob Holden is overestimating the fiscal year 2005 deficit by almost $700 million.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of December 15, 2003:
Meanwhile, Republican House Budget Chairman Carl Bearden says the state is looking at a shortfall in the next fiscal year, but says Gov. Bob Holden is overestimating the fiscal year 2005 deficit by almost $700 million.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of October 6, 2003:
JEFFERSON CITY - House Budget Director Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, is calling on Gov. Bob Holden to release $240 million in withholdings because state revenue is up. State budget director Linda Luebbering said it is too early to consider releasing the funds.
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