Bob Taft: Addressed a projected $1.2 billion (growing to a reported $1.9 billion) two-year state budget shortfall, produced by the national recession, primarily through spending cuts, draws on the state's rainy-day fund, and reallocation of tobacco-settlement money, signing budget-balancing legislation in December 2001; critics said he had failed to adequately build up the rainy-day fund earlier in his term.

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Bob Taft: Addressed a projected $1.2 billion (growing to a reported $1.9 billion) two-year state budget shortfall, produced by the national recession, primarily through spending cuts, draws on the state's rainy-day fund, and reallocation of tobacco-settlement money, signing budget-balancing legislation in December 2001; critics said he had failed to adequately build up the rainy-day fund earlier in his term.

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Date: 2001-12
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What: Addressed a projected $1.2 billion (growing to a reported $1.9 billion) two-year state budget shortfall, produced by the national recession, primarily through spending cuts, draws on the state's rainy-day fund, and reallocation of tobacco-settlement money, signing budget-balancing legislation in December 2001; critics said he had failed to adequately build up the rainy-day fund earlier in his term.

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