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Costs & Benefits of a Tied Senate

By Senator Jay Paul Gumm, D-Durant

Hello again, everybody! It has been an interesting process learning how to work in a Senate divided evenly between Democrats and Republicans.That split has a financial cost. Because things were shared evenly by both parties, it cost the Senate more than $600,000 to level the playing field between both parties. That money ensured that the Democrats and Republicans have equal staff working for them and equal space in which to do the people’s business. Read more…

Friday, June 15th, 2007 OK Legislator's Blog, OK Senate, Sen. Gumm Trackback URL for this entry

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