Summary
AUGUSTA - Democratic lawmakers worked late into the evening Wednesday attempting to cobble together enough votes to pass a controversial borrowing package containing money to preserve the only major rail line serving Aroostook County.
After lengthy negotiations and hard lobbying by northern Maine business leaders, supporters still were several votes short of the two-thirds majority needed in the Senate to send the bond package to voters later this year.See the full content of this document
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House Oks Bond Bill; Senate in Doubt
The House voted 100-48 just before 9 p.m. Wednesday on the bill, passing it by the slimmest of margins. Not long before, supporters had failed by just three votes to hit the two-thirds majority.
But the bil...See the full content of this document
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