As Pennsylvania missed its budget deadline for the seventh year, Senate Republicans on Tuesday presented united opposition to Gov. Ed Rendell's proposed state tax increases and demanded the Democrat-controlled House vote on a spending plan.

Budget negotiators from both political parties spent a second night with Rendell at the governor's mansion, reviewing his proposed $29 billion spending plan line by line. Taxpayers paid $240 to feed them a flank steak buffet during Monday's talks, Rendell's spokesman Chuck Ardo said.

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