...offer by $5 million, to a $20 million break, and promised to make it part of a three-year phase-in.House Ways and Means Chairman Brian White said anything less than the full $60 million right away is a nonstarter, however."We're...

...companies, S corporations and sole proprietorships, which report their business profits as personal income.House Ways and Means Chairman Brian White offered to split the difference, giving $40 million in relief this coming year while phasing...

...think it's what we need to do."The two dissenting votes came from the panel's legislative leaders: House Ways and Means Chairman Brian White and Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman.The budget provided public workers their first raise...

...budget as a template."While I like a lot of things she's put in there, we'll see what happens," said House Ways and Means Chairman Brian White, R-Anderson."You may see this year more things in line with the governor's budget than...

...rainy-day fund.The measures face another perfunctory vote in the House on Thursday before heading to the Senate.House Ways and Means Chairman Brian White thanked members for a civil debate, which began on the floor Monday and ended at an unusually...

WASHINGTON -- The fragile economy and wildly gyrating financial markets could put enormous pressure on Congress' new debt-reduction supercommittee. Yet even as leaders finished naming the bipartisan panel's members, it remained uncertain that it will ultimately agree on a savings plan.

...meals for the elderly and $2 million for HIV/AIDS medication ? should the veto stick as expected, said House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Cooper."None of that was done to balance the budget," said Cooper, R-Piedmont. "It was to help...

...executive director Frank Fusco."If you want to restructure the agency, this is not the way to do it," House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Cooper said before the vote.Democrats railed against the decimation of the state's consumer protection...

...their plan is a "two-way street" in which the state and local governments would share the information.House Ways and Means Chairman Larry O'Neal said a pilot program showed there is a problem."There is a lot of fraud and abuse in the...

...S. Department of Education for an interpretation of the state's obligations to get the federal money. House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Cooper, R-Piedmont, said he had no written interpretation from the federal agency when the budget committee...