The Alaska Senate has voted 16-4 to send the state’s $1.6 billion capital construction budget to the House. The $1.6 billion budget is in many ways a bare-bones appropriation and went unchanged from a version previously approved by the Senate Finance Committee. “It’s tough times; it requires tough decisions, and the Senate has risen to the occasion,” said Sen. Anna MacKinnon, R-Anchorage.
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