Burke MAY 6, 2011
DISTRICT 44
Caldwell MAY
ISSUE #1
Dear Friends,
Happy Mother’s Day!
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It has been a very busy week in the General Assembly. Now that the House has passed its budget, Senate members have been working hard to study its provisions. Unfortunately, due to budget meetings, I am unable address as many issues this week as in previous newsletters. This week, in a bipartisan vote of 72-47, the state House passed a budget that cuts wasteful spending, reduces taxes, and protects teachers and other vital state services. This is the first in many steps that will return North Carolina to responsible spending levels without requiring more in taxes from our citizens. The House budget will put over $1 billion back into the private sector in order to pull our state out of this tough economic downturn. Overall, the House budget appropriates $19.3 billion for fiscal year 2011-2012 and $19.5 billion in fiscal year 2012-2013. Next week, the Senate will take up the House budget in committee, carefully examining every line item before deliberations begin on the Senate floor. I am sure some changes will be made, and some provisions will be added and subtracted to have the greatest possible positive impact on North Carolina. Ultimately, our goal is to pass the budget in a timely fashion. We will urge Governor Perdue to sign the budget and demonstrate she is serious about addressing the $2.6 billion budget deficit we currently face. Continued on page 2
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MOTHER’S DAY HISTORY “God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.” So said Abraham Lincoln of his beloved mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, whom he lost to milk sickness—she drank milk from a cow who’d grazed on white snakeroot, it’s poisonous—when she was 34 and her son age nine, old enough to help his father plane pine boards and carve wooden pegs to make the coffin they buried her in. She died two weeks after drinking the blighted milk, as did several others in their village of Little Pigeon Creek, Indiana. It was October 5, 1818. Dennis Hanks, Nancy’s cousin, paints the death scene: Nancy called Abraham and his sister Sarah to her bedside and asked them “to be good and kind to their father, to each other, and to the world.” “I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”- A. Lincoln