Senate Republican leaders say Iowans will get at least 40-million dollars in tax cuts next year — one way or another. Senate Republican Leader Stewart Iverson of Dows says if he doesn’t win his lawsuit trying to reinstate tax cuts Governor Vilsack knocked down, Republicans will probably pass a another bill cutting income taxes. He says they’ll get back together sometime in November to get more details.Senate Republicans met privately yesterday to start talking about agenda items for next year’s legislative session. Senate President Mary Kramer, a Republican from Clive, is asking state education officials to provide a report showing how the initiative to increase beginning teacher pay, establish mentoring programs and tie teacher pay with performance is working. Kramer says she wants lawmakers to be “smart enough to stop something if it’s not working rather than say ‘Uh, oh,’ we started that, we’d better prop it up forever.”
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