Going Into Hole Adds to Texas Budget Woes
<i> Associated Press</i>
AUSTIN, Tex. —
State lawmakers, already facing a huge budget deficit, have literally gone into the hole.
House and Senate members gathered Wednesday to have a group photograph taken in a 60-foot-deep hole excavated behind the Capitol. The hole is for construction of underground parking and office space, part of a $160-million expansion of the 103-year-old Capitol.
Capitol architect Allen McCree said 40,000 truckloads containing a total of about 680,000 tons of material were hauled from the nearly four-acre hole.
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