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Va.'s $77B budget spared major cuts, Assembly adjourns
Lawmakers left the Capitol relieved that they had avoided reductions proposed two months ago in education, health and public safety. They also realized that if the economy doesn't improve in two years, when a federal windfall begins to run out, a day of reckoning will come.
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