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“We’ll put the measures on the floordand they’ll pass,” Courtney, a Salem said Thursday morning. He declined to be more Late Wednesday, Oregon Senate Democrats came up one vote short in the attempt to increasre the current corporate minimum taxfrom $10 to betwee n $150 and $100,000, depending on the size of a Democrats needed 18 votes a supermajority required to raise taxes to send the bill to Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s They came up one vote shortf after Beaverton Democrat Mark Hass objected to makintg theincrease permanent. Some speculate that Democrats will try to convinces Hass to vote forthe measure, possibly by writing a sunse into the bill.
After the vote, the Senatw tabled a related measure to raise taxeson high-incomes individuals. Combined, the measures would generate aprojected $733 millionj to fill the $4.2 billiojn hole in the two-year statr budget that starts July 1. This story will be