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Tom Scheck

DFL counter offer

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Here's the counter offer from the DFL legislative leaders. I rewrote the sheet they gave out but added some context from follow-up interviews with DFL House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher and DFL Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller:

Legislative Offer Saturday, May 16, 2009 9:30PM Close remaining $2.7 billion gap (after line-item vetoes) K-12 shift (temporary cut to districs) - $1,775M Reduce local aids, credits and other tax expenditure items and $14M tax compliance - 120M Efficiency reductions in State Government (ldrs say it will resemble MAPE proposal) - $169M Permanent Revenue (unspecified. Leaders say they're willing to work with Gov. Pawlenty on this) - $986M Additional spending reductions in signed budget bills - $52M Restore HHS line-item veto (GAMC) - (363)M