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Branstad outlines plan to shrink government
Posted: 11.04.2010 at 8:09 AM
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DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- Gov.-elect Terry Branstad says his first priority is to put together a spending plan to begin shrinking state government by 15 percent over five years.
   
In an interview with The Des Moines Register on Wednesday, the former four-term governor says he plans to save millions by filling only the minimum of more than 2,000 state positions vacated by early retirement in June.
   
Leaders in the new split-party Legislature say the idea has merit.
   
However, Senate Democrats vow to block another priority of the incoming Republican governor - a two-year budget. Branstad has said a biennial budget would provide more stability in planning.
   
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Gronstal, of Council Bluffs, says it would give Branstad too much control over too much money.
 

(Copyright ©2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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