Driving up registrations?

A proposal by House Speaker Andrew Romanoff is aimed at ending a conflict between one constitutional amendment that limits overall state spending and another that requires increased spending for public schools.

Senate Joint Resolution 31, up for its first hearing on Tuesday, would end tax surplus refunds after 2011 in exchange for removing the amendment that requires more money for public schools.

Some in the GOP, the minority party in both houses, oppose the idea and plan to introduce a solution of their own.

The hike in car and truck registration fees would raise an estimated $300 million a year for highways and bridges. Other ideas to pay for roads have gone nowhere since the session started in January. On Monday, a Senate committee will hold the first hearing on a proposal to raise the $5 bet limit in blackjack and poker games and on slot machines at Colorado casinos.

The sponsor, Democratic Sen. Ron Tupa of Boulder, hasn

Doubling it to $10 would bring in an estimated $13.7 million in extra tax revenue in the first year. A $100 limit is predicted to bring an additional $28.6 million.

The budget fix and the increase in vehicle fees would first have to win the backing of two-thirds of the House and Senate and then go before voters for final approval. The car registration increase wouldn

Oct. 18 - cross-strait agricultural cooperation forum on the 17th afternoon in Boao, Hainan closing, the chairman of the KMT Mainland Affairs Department Chang Jung-kung said that the Forum will continue to be held next year, the KMT will try its best to fight for the next forum staged in Taiwan.

According to the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, Chang Jung-kung said that in accordance with the agreement, the Forum will continue to be held next year, definitely, but the theme of the Forum has not yet been determined, pending the two sides in future consultations on the venue will fight for Taiwan.

He said that originally the cross-strait agricultural cooperation forum to be held in Taipei, but the DPP was forced to delay and obstruct the ex-situ, the KMT will try its best to go to Taiwan for the next forum organized.

KMT Honorary Chairman Lien Chan in the cross-strait agricultural cooperation forum at a press conference after the closing also said that last year, according to the consensus reached between the KMT and the two sides established a party-to-party communication platform, and has organized a cross-strait economic and trade forum and Cross-Strait Agricultural Cooperation Forum. KMT-CPC forum for the future will continue to hold on, but the specific issues necessary for the two sides re-established after consultations.

Lien said that at present between the two sides of many issues, not necessarily through the KMT and KMT-CPC forum of communication platforms and resolved through consultation, the KMT is also using other means to exchange with the Chinese communists, such as the Legislative Yuan group formed a delegation to several times Visit the mainland to promote settlement of cross-strait holiday charter flights, mainland residents to Taiwan for tourism, and other topics. (He Pengfei)