Mr. Schumer said in an interview that another $500 million federal appropriation probably would be needed in the second year, bringing the total state and federal cost to $1.5 billion.
The governor, for example, has asked the Legislature for an additional $36 million a year for drug and alcohol treatment, which would bring the total amount the state spends on such services to $48 million annually.
Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will bring the total of winning states up to 22, forming a critical mass of states that have committed to implementing Obama's education agenda.
That would bring the total number of states in which gays and lesbians can wed to thirty.
However, in February 1870, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas ratified the amendment, bringing the total ratifying states to twenty-nine one more than the required twenty-eight ratifications from the thirty-seven states, and forestalling any court challenge to New York's resolution to withdraw its consent.
This brings the total of state-funded school retrofits in Oregon up to 22 schools in 16 school districts around the state, from metropolitan Portland to rural (and coastal) Myrtle Point.
But those defeats were the exception on drug policy: In Nevada and Colorado, voters approved initiatives legalizing the medical use of marijuana, bringing the total of states with such laws to eight.
Since then, however, the Republicans have experienced an almost miraculous resurrection.In the mid-terms of November 2010 they won control of the House of Representatives, an extra six seats in the Senate and six more state governorships, bringing the total number of state houses under Republican management to 29 out of 50.
A bit of non-earnings related news: Wal-Mart Stores said it is taking its reduced-price generic drug plan to over half the states in the U.S. The world's biggest retailer said it will extend its $4 generic prescription drug plan to another 12 states, bringing the total to 27 states.
Pro-gay marriage groups have routed their opponents financially, outraising them three-to-one in November 2012 ballot races that legalized same-sex marriage in three more states, bringing the total to nine states and the District of Columbia.
