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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2017
State House narrowly OKs K-12 budget plan
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The Oregon House
of Representatives Tuesday nar-
rowly approved an $8.2 billion state
K-12 budget for the next two years.
The budget now heads to Gov. Kate
Brown for a signature.
The 31-28 vote followed a debate
during which Democrats and Repub-
licans agreed the amount was not
enough. Yet, they blamed each other
for failing to reach a deal on rais-
ing new revenue and containing ris-
ing overhead costs through reform
of pension and health insurance
benefits.
Gov. Kate Brown and legislative
leaders announced last week that
negotiations for an agreement had
crumbled in the waning days of the
legislative session.
Members from both parties stood
on the House floor and asked each
other how long they would accept
mediocrity in the state’s school sys-
tem. Oregon’s public schools have
among the nation’s largest class
sizes, shortest school years and low-
est high school graduation rates,
despite spending more per pupil than
many other states.
“Oregon has been kicking the
can down the road since I was in the
first grade, and it is kicking the can
again,” said Rep. Diego Hernandez,
one of four freshmen Democrats who
voted against the budget.
Reps. Hernandez, Julie Fahey,
Meek and Tawna Sanchez were the
only Democrats who voted no.
Republicans
unanimously
opposed the budget, saying Demo-
crats had failed to seriously consider
money-saving proposals to curtail
state pension and health insurance
costs.
Lawmakers have failed to earn
voters’ trust to efficiently manage
tax revenue, said Rep. Richard Vial,
R-Scholls. Rep. Knute Buehler,
R-Bend, said overhead costs are eat-
ing away the money that should be
going toward students’ education.
Other Democrats said they reluc-
tantly consented to the budget and
urged each other to pursue reve-
nue reform in subsequent legislative
sessions.
“We need to put partisanship aside
and do what is right for Oregon,” said
Rep. Janeen Sollman, D-Hillsboro.
The spending plan consists of
$7.68 billion from the general fund,
$452.9 million in lottery proceeds
and $63 million in other funds,
including recreational marijuana tax
revenue.
The plan exceeds the existing
two-year budget by 11.2 percent.
Education advocates, including
the Oregon School Boards Asso-
ciation, have said the amount fails
to account for schools’ increasing
expenses related to bargained salaries
and the rising cost of providing health
insurance and pension benefits.
The Senate passed the budget
25-to-5 June 8.
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
New cyberattack wallops Europe;
spreads more slowly in US
Senate GOP shelves health bill,
imperils ‘Obamacare’ repeal
WASHINGTON — Senate GOP leaders abruptly shelved
their long-sought health care overhaul Tuesday, asserting they
can still salvage it but raising new doubts about whether Presi-
dent Donald Trump and the Republicans will ever deliver on their
promises to repeal and replace “Obamacare.”
Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced a delay for
any voting at a closed-door senators’ lunch also attended by Vice
President Mike Pence. McConnell’s tone was matter-of-fact,
according those present, yet his action amounts to a stinging set-
back for the longtime Senate leader who had developed the legis-
lation largely in secret as Trump hung back in deference.
Now Trump seems likely to push into the discussion more
directly, and he immediately invited Senate Republicans to the
White House. But the message he delivered to them before
reporters were ushered out of the room was not entirely hopeful.
“This will be great if we get it done, and if we don’t get it done
it’s just going to be something that we’re not going to like, and
that’s OK and I understand that very well,” he told the senators,
who surrounded him at tables arranged in a giant square in the
East Room. Most wore grim expressions.
In the private meeting that followed, said Marco Rubio of
Florida, the president spoke of “the costs of failure, what it would
mean to not get it done — the view that we would wind up in a
situation where the markets will collapse and Republicans will
be blamed for it and then potentially have to fight off an effort to
expand to single payer at some point.”
US cites preparations for
chemical weapons attack in Syria
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Tues-
day it has detected “active preparations” by Syria for a chemical
attack and threatened to retaliate — warning of action that could
plunge America deeper into a civil war alongside the fight against
Islamic State militants.
The chemical threat and sudden White House warning illus-
trate the challenging complexities of the fighting in Syria, a coun-
try whose territory was used by IS to march into Iraq in 2014 and
prompt a U.S. return to the Middle East’s battlefield. Washington
now has more than 5,000 troops in Iraq and about 1,000 in Syria.
President Donald Trump has said he won’t stand for Syria’s
use of chemical weapons, which are banned under international
law and are particularly worrisome in the Arab country because
they could fall into extremists’ hands.
The Pentagon said the preparations detected by the U.S.
occurred at the same air base where Syrian aircraft embarked
on a sarin gas strike on April 4, killing almost 90 people. Days
later, Trump ordered a cruise missile attack against the base in
retaliation.
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AP Photo/Jill Zeman Bleed
The new Ten Commandments monument outside the state
Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., is blocked off this morning, af-
ter someone crashed into it with a vehicle, less than 24
hours after the privately funded monument was placed on
the Capitol grounds. Authorities arrested a male suspect.
Man destroys Ten Commandments
monument at Arkansas Capitol
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Capitol police arrested a man after
Arkansas’ new Ten Commandments monument was smashed to
pieces when someone rammed a vehicle into it early today, less
than 24 hours after the 6-foot granite statue was placed on state
Capitol grounds.
Secretary of State’s Office spokesman Chris Powell said cap-
itol police arrested the male suspect early today.
The driver is identified in an arrest report as Michael Tate
Reed of Van Buren, Arkansas. A Facebook Live video shot early
today and posted on an account belonging to a Michael Reed
appears to show the destruction of the monument.
In the video, the sky is dark and the Arkansas Capitol’s dome
is visible. Music is heard followed by a female voice, likely on the
radio, saying, “Where do you go when you’re faced with adver-
sity and trials and challenges?” The driver is then heard growling,
“Oh my goodness. Freedom!” before accelerating into the mon-
ument. The vehicle’s speedometer is last shown at 21 mph and
then a collision can be heard.
Pulaski County jail records show that Reed was booked into
the jail shortly after 7:30 a.m. today on preliminary charges of
defacing objects of public interest, criminal trespass and first-de-
gree criminal mischief, with Capitol Police listed as the arrest
agency.
Arkansas’ monument fell from its plinth and broke into multi-
ple pieces as it hit the ground.
“As far as what happens to the monument, it’s unclear at this
time,” Powell said. “The first thing will be to clean up the debris.”
PARIS — A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scram-
bling software — apparently sown in Ukraine — caused dis-
ruption across the world Tuesday. Following a similar attack in
May , the fresh cyber-assault paralyzed some hospitals, govern-
ment offices and major multinational corporations in a dramatic
demonstration of how easily malicious programs can bring daily
life to a halt.
Ukraine and Russia appeared hardest hit by the new strain of
ransomware — malicious software that locks up computer files
with all-but-unbreakable encryption and then demands a ransom
for its release. In the United States, the malware affected compa-
nies such as the drugmaker Merck and Mondelez International,
the owner of food brands such as Oreo and Nabisco.
Its pace appeared to slow as the day wore on, in part because
the malware appeared to require direct contact between computer
networks, a factor that may have limited its spread in regions with
fewer connections to Ukraine.
The malware’s origins remain unclear. Researchers picking
the program apart found evidence its creators had borrowed from
leaked National Security Agency code, raising the possibility that
the digital havoc had spread using U.S. taxpayer-funded tools.
“The virus is spreading all over Europe and I’m afraid it can
harm the whole world,” said Victor Zhora, the chief executive of
Infosafe IT in Kiev, where reports of the malicious software first
emerged early afternoon local time Tuesday.
FBI agent indicted in Oregon
refuge standoff shooting
PORTLAND — An FBI agent has been indicted on accusa-
tions that he lied about firing at a rancher in 2016 when officers
arrested leaders of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife ref-
uge in rural Oregon.
Sources familiar with the case say the agent will face allega-
tions of making a false statement with intent to obstruct justice,
The Oregonian reported Tuesday.
The indictment stems from more than a yearlong investiga-
tion by the U.S. Justice Department inspector general. The agent
will be identified when summoned to appear today in U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Portland.
Authorities moved in on Ammon Bundy and other leaders
as they were driving in two vehicles from the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge to a meeting on Jan. 26, 2016.
The Deschutes County sheriff said that as Robert “LaVoy”
Finicum left his truck, an FBI agent shot twice at Finicum, though
none of the hostage team members said they discharged their fire-
arms. The county sheriff’s office was tasked with investigating
the Finicum shooting.
The FBI agent’s bullets didn’t hit Finicum, 54, an Arizona
rancher who was the spokesman for the takeover near Burns in
Harney County.
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