Politics

WASHINGTON - As President Barack Obama and lawmakers spar over huge federal deficits, they're confronted by a classic contradiction.

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PIERRE - After passing the house, the bill to force insurers to accept free patient choice in healthcare providers was voted down resoundingly in the South Dakota Senate.

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PIERRE - The South Dakota Legislature is working to pass a state budget before the main run of this year's legislative session ends Friday.

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SIOUX FALLS - A man accused of criticizing South Dakota Republican leadership last year through robo-calls that weren't properly identified wants a judge to throw out a civil lawsuit against him because he also is being charged criminally.

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PIERRE - A negotiating committee plans to hammer out proposed changes to a comprehensive bipartisan economic development plan on the penultimate day of South Dakota's main legislative session.

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PIERRE - The South Dakota Legislature has rejected a plan to provide government-funded prenatal care to more pregnant women.

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PIERRE - A comprehensive bipartisan economic development fund plan aimed at helping to recruit projects to South Dakota has survived an attempt by a Republican lawmaker to split the bill in five parts.

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SIOUX FALLS - South Dakota Sens. Tim Johnson and John Thune have introduced legislation that would allow local communities to assume ownership of nine historic cemeteries in the Black Hills.

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PIERRE - Victims of the most serious felonies would be assured the right to testify at sentencing under a South Dakota legislative panel's change to a marginally related bill on juvenile homicide offenders.

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A proposal to change the South Dakota Constitution regarding citizen votes on raising taxes has been narrowly defeated in the House.

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