New VA Budget Barely Meets Deadline
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Updated: 12:21 PM Feb 28, 2008
New VA Budget Barely Meets Deadline
RICHMOND, Va. (AP)
A version of the new state spending plan is out.
Posted: 1:16 AM Feb 28, 2008
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Deeply split over its first budget under new Democratic rule, the Senate hobbled out a version of the new state spending plan on a 22-18 vote Wednesday night.

Had the budget for the 2009 and 2010 fiscal years not passed, it would have left only a House-written version of it alive beyond a critical deadline.

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