Texas budget deal includes push to prolong anti-cancer effort championed by Lance Armstrong
(WorldNews Politics)

AUSTIN -- The Legislature`s top two budget writers are expressing delight over a deal that they and colleagues have struck on state spending for the next two years. Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, and Rep. John Zerwas, R-Richmond, acknowledged late Friday that the final decisions on some of the session`s top priorities -- property tax cuts and teacher pay raises -- are still being negotiated by a separate House-Senate conference committee working on the school finance bill, House Bill 3. And details of how much Nelson and Zerwas` 10-member panel on HB 1, the two-year budget, have actually spent -- and on what -- will take...