BOSTON – The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Monday shot down proposals to increase the state gas tax and to cap the state's film tax credit program as they began to dispense with more than 1,300 amendments to a state budget bill.
The House swiftly took care of more than 30 revenue-related amendments to the $39.48 billion proposal, rejecting four and voting to study two others. The rest were withdrawn by their sponsors after behind the scenes talks.
BOSTON — Saturday's Massachusetts Republican caucuses could prove crucial to who emerges at July's Republican National Convention to claim the party's presidential nomination.
With New York billionaire Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, counting and courting every last delegate across the country, the selection of 27 convention delegates from Massachusetts (three each from the nine congressional districts) could be critical. Cruz has been working furiously to make sure Trump fails to hit the magic number of 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination, while Trump has recently added senior aides with experience rounding up delegates to help ensure that he does just that.
