{"id":843,"date":"2009-09-03T23:57:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=843"},"modified":"2017-12-18T16:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:19:33","slug":"republicans-call-for-state-special-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2009\/09\/03\/republicans-call-for-state-special-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans call for state special session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 3, 2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090903\/NEWS02\/309039959\/-1\/opinion02&#038;dsq=15954717\">Nashua Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CONCORD \u2013 Republican legislative leaders called upon Gov. John Lynch to convene a special session to cut spending in a state budget embroiled in a $110 million court dispute and faced with lagging revenues over the past two months.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republican Leader Peter Bragdon, of Milford, and House Republican Leader Sherman Packard, of Londonderry, asked Lynch to release state agency head work papers from last fall that assumed a 3 percent cut in state spending over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to come back; we need to make the cuts which we are asking for,&#8221; Packard told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are asking for the governor to step up, call us back into special session so we can make the cuts necessary to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090903\/NEWS02\/309039959\/-1\/opinion02&#038;dsq=15954717#comment-15954717\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 3, 2009 Nashua Telegraph CONCORD \u2013 Republican legislative leaders called upon Gov. John Lynch to convene a special session to cut spending in a state budget embroiled in a $110 million court dispute and faced with lagging revenues over the past two months. Senate Republican Leader Peter Bragdon, of Milford, and House Republican Leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-broadbased","category-governor-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}