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Job-training boost turns senator, called 27th

By Michael Wickline

Posted: February 19, 2014 at 5:02 a.m.

Stephen B. Thornton State Sen. Jane English, R-North Little Rock, said “a lot of folks are going to hate me” for switching her vote on the private option, but she said a funding boost for job training was “a game changer.”

Senate President Pro Tempore Michael Lamoureux, R-Russellville, said Tuesday that the Senate has sufficient votes to authorize federal funding for the private option in fiscal 2015, after Sen. Jane English, R-North Little Rock, said she’ll vote for the measure after opposing it last year.

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State Rep. John Burris, R-Harrison, (standing) talks with House Majority Leader Bruce Westerman after speaking in favor of continued funding for the expanded, private-option Medicaid plan. Ann Clemmer, R-Benton, (front left) voted no, while Nate Bell, R-Mena, (front right) voted yes. State Reps. Butch Wilkins (back row), D-Bono, and Jody Dickinson, D-Newport, also backed the proposal.

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