{"id":97771,"date":"2016-03-29T10:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97771"},"modified":"2016-03-29T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:08:58","slug":"dems-call-for-special-session-budget-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97771","title":{"rendered":"Dems call for Special Session, budget shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-95509\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Democraticlogo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Democraticlogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Democraticlogo-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Democraticlogo-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Democraticlogo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Democratic leaders in the North Dakota Legislature are asking Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple to call a special session to address the state&#8217;s budget woes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senate Minority Leader Mac Schneider says he believes a &#8220;very brief, very focused&#8221; session would help lawmakers make a plan to weather the effects of money problems due primarily to low oil and crop prices.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Grand Forks Democrat says there was no strategy involved in Dalrymple&#8217;s across-the-board budget cuts. Schneider says some individuals and groups should be spared from the cuts.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Democrats have scheduled news conferences Tuesday in Fargo and Bismarck to outline their plans.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Zent, the governor&#8217;s policy adviser, did not immediately respond to an email request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Democratic leaders in the North Dakota Legislature are asking Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple to call a special session to address the state&#8217;s budget woes. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senate Minority Leader Mac Schneider says he believes a &#8220;very brief, very focused&#8221; session would help lawmakers make a plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97772,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97771\/revisions\/97772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}