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'special language'

Legislative sausage making: Looking after Entergy's pocketbook in Joint Budget UPDATE

Surprise: Entergy hopes to reap a windfall by the clandestine "special language" backdoor in Joint Budget tomorrow.
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Again with the 'special language': Dismang wins frackers a tax break

Despite a warning from state finance officials that the proposal is unconstitutional, Sen. Jonathan Dismang won approval on a revote today of his proposal to give a $5 million-a-year tax break to the fracking industry by exempting materials injected in wells from the sales tax.
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A tax break for frackers fails in committee

The special language subcommittee of the Joint Budget Committee is where the smelliest blood sausage of the legislature gets made. Today, Sen. Jonathan Dismang used it to attempt to insert a tax break for fracking sand into the law, outside of the usual process of voting it through both houses of the legislature.
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