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Mark Pazniokas :: CT Mirror Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, and Sen. Paul Formica, R-East Lyme, the two highest-ranking senators on the budget-writing Appropriations Committee. The Senate overwhelmingly adopted the new, $46.4 billion, two-year state budget Wednesday evening, sending the package to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk with strong bipartisan support. The Democrat-controlled chamber voted 31-4 to approve the package, which makes major new investments in municipal aid, education and human services, avoids major tax hikes, and delivers tax relief to working poor families. The biennial plan, which does not touch the $3 billion-plus rainy day fund, also leaves the state poised to deposit more than $1 billion in surplus funds from the outgoing budget into Connecticut’s cash-starved pension funds. But the package does rely on about $1.75 billion in federal coronavirus pandemic relief to remain in balance, setting up a huge potential hole in state finances when that aid is exhausted in

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