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Virginia House, Senate Continue to Negotiate Differences on Budget.

By Kevin Crossett, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 26--RICHMOND, Va. -- Sen. John Chichester, R-Fredericksburg, said any prospect of appointing conferees early to work out differences in the House of Delegates and state Senate budgets would be futile after the House Finance Committee killed the Senate's tax plan Wednesday evening on a near party-line vote.

Two Democrats, Dels. Stephen Shannon, D-Vienna, and Lynwood Lewis, D-Accomack, voted against the proposal along with the 14 Republicans who sit on the comm

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