AUGUSTA (AP) – Maine lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a supplemental budget bill crafted with Democratic and Republican cooperation.

The voting was overwhelming – 34-1 in the Senate and 136-5 in the House of Representatives.

The spending adjustment package directs more than $41 million to local school aid and $29 million to special reserve funds and replaced $25 million in borrowing proposed by Gov. John Baldacci with $15 million for highway and bridge work.

In the House, Democratic leader Glenn Cummings of Portland and Republican leader David Bowles of Sanford took turns praising the bipartisanship that produced a deal.

“I think this is something both parties can be proud of,” Cummings said.

Bowles said legislative leaders had given negotiators enough leeway to lay a foundation for compromise.

Similar sentiments were expressed in the Senate, where the lone opposing vote was cast by Republican Kevin Raye of Perry as he faulted a lack of attention for Hancock County.

Gov. John Baldacci said he was satisfied with the deal that emerged from the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee and was affirmed by the House and Senate.

Flanked by close to 20 lawmakers at a Cabinet Room celebration, the governor said the package of $219.1 million in spending with $106.7 million in savings met essential service demands while maintaining fiscal responsibility.

In remarks on the floor prior to the last vote, Senate Republican leader Paul Davis of Sangerville acknowledged that he had doubted the two sides could find common ground but said he was glad to have been wrong.

Republican Sen. Richard Nass of Acton attributed the success of negotiators to “a pent-up demand for agreement” after past efforts to bring Democrats and Republicans together over spending priorities had foundered.

Sen. Peggy Rotundo, the Lewiston Democrat who is co-chairman of the Appropriations panel, recalled “several critical points” during negotiations at which “everyone could have walked away.”

She lauded Nass and Democrat John Martin of Eagle Lake, the other senator on the 13-member panel of House and Senate bargainers, for helping to guide debate and cement the deal.

The compromise package provides $17 million in state money for payments to hospitals for past services.

Rotundo pegged an amount made available to support prescription drug subsidies at $11 million.

The attention of numerous lawmakers had already turned to what uses could be made of a balance of $730,000 left by budget negotiators.

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