{"id":18145,"date":"2013-05-04T22:51:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T03:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18145"},"modified":"2013-05-04T22:51:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T03:51:25","slug":"lawmakers-wrap-2013-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18145","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Wrap 2013 Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13725\" title=\"NDstatecapital\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s Legislature ended its longest session ever early Saturday morning after weary lawmakers approved final bills to a record-high state budget.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 session adjourned at about 4:35 a.m. Saturday, after lawmakers endorsed spending plans for the Department of Public Instruction and the Office of Management and Budget, which serves as Legislature\u2019s last-minute catchall bill. The Legislature met for 80 days, the maximum set by the state constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers from both sides exchanged high-fives, handshakes and hugs after a marathon day that came to an end after approval of the two spending measures that completed work on the Legislature\u2019s $14 billion, two-year budget. It includes $6.9 billion in state general fund spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s Legislature ended its longest session ever early Saturday morning after weary lawmakers approved final bills to a record-high state budget. The 2013 session adjourned at about 4:35 a.m. Saturday, after lawmakers endorsed spending plans for the Department of Public Instruction and the Office of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18146,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions\/18146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}