RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina General Assembly Republicans completed the override June 12 of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of their state budget legislation for the second year in a row. The House secured the override with a nearly party-line 73-44 vote ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina legislature’s budget recipe for next year is almost complete and headed for Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk. One more affirmative vote at the General Assembly is required before the nearly $24 billion plan receives final legislative ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Republican adjustments to next year’s North Carolina state budget remain on course to wind up on Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk as soon as the end of the week. Both the House and Senate scheduled debate and votes May 31 ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina budget changes for the coming year are coming up for their first floor vote. The full Senate scheduled debate and the first of two required votes May 30 on the nearly $24 billion spending plan. House debate ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The opening day of North Carolina’s General Assembly session will be marked by thousands of teachers descending on the Legislative Building to lobby for more school funding and higher salaries. The gavels go down on the House and ...

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RALEIGH (AP) School districts across North Carolina will present next year’s funding requests in the coming weeks to local county commissioners, with the potential for costly and lengthy litigation if they can’t see eye-to-eye on spending. So the General Assembly’s ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Both temperatures and tempers are likely to run hot as lawmakers return to Washington for an abbreviated 6-week summertime session featuring a handful of must-do legislation and the roll-out of a House GOP campaign agenda that’s a ...

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Top Senate budget-writers have written an early-session spending bill that in part seeks to ensure a panel drafting new academic standards for North Carolina's public schools has money to perform its work.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s now up to the Senate to pass a huge $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep the government running, but not before a battle between old school veterans and new breed freshmen such as tea partier Ted ...

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RALEIGH— North Carolina House Republicans and Gov. Pat McCrory united Wednesday to try to force the Senate’s hand in sluggish state budget negotiations by pushing a scaled-back spending plan that focuses largely on raising teacher and state employee salaries. But ...

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