Holden would use savings fund

Thursday, January 24, 2002

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Casting it as a "moral choice," Gov. Bob Holden asked lawmakers Wednesday to spend $135 million from Missouri's savings account to assure uninterrupted state services ranging from psychiatry to passenger trains.

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