``At this point we feel really good,'' he told reporters.
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Legislative leaders reach deal on state budget
CHILDRENS' HEALTH INSURANCE STRIPPED FROM THE PLAN
By Edwin Garcia
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau
SACRAMENTO - Legislative leaders announced agreement Monday on a $131
billion state budget, capping more than two weeks of negotiations that
stalled over a dispute about whether to provide health insurance for
illegal immigrant children.
The $23 million that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed for the
children's insurance was removed from the budget, Assembly Republican
Leader George Plescia told the Mercury News immediately after leaving an
afternoon meeting in the governor's office.
``The health-care issues have been taken out of the budget; it was going
to hold the budget up,'' Plescia said. ``Otherwise,'' he added, ``we
weren't going to get a budget done.''
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núnez, who declined to release details of the
negotiations, said he was pleased with the outcome.
``At this point we feel really good,'' he told reporters.
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