voting by the full Legislature before being blocked by a filibuster. Governmental Transparency and Efficiency White's Taxpayer Transparency Act, passed in 2009, requires development of a publicly accessible, nonpolitical website to track all state spending. During the 2010 session, White sponsored a bill to cut state government red tape for small businesses. The Regulatory Flexibility Act was advanced from committee but stalled out on the legislative floor on a near party-line vote. Budget and Taxes During his time in the Legislature, White has only supported balanced budgets that contain no tax increases. He did not vote for the state budgets in 2007 and 2008 because they contained increases in the gas tax. He voted for the budget in 2009 and for the 2010 budget, which cut millions in state spending and was balanced without raising taxes. During the budget-cutting special session in 2009, White voted for the three bills that cut and balanced the budget. The bills closely mirrored Governor Heineman's proposal, which was based on agency savings, general fund transfers, specific reductions and across-the-board reductions that could lead to furloughs or layoffs. White did not, however, vote for a separate proposal to reduce future aid to public schools because, he argued, it would lead to local property tax increases. This argument was later echoed by Governor Heineman. Instead, he introduced an alternative plan that would have balanced the budget, closed property tax loopholes for large landowners – many of them from out-of-state – and increased property tax relief for homeowners. Attorney General Jon Bruning ruled the bill outside the narrow scope of the Governor's special session call, so it was not debated. White opposed line-item vetoes by Governor Heineman in 2007 that cut funding for Meals on Wheels in Omaha and programs for the disabled. The budget was already balanced prior to the vetoes, so the Governor's reduction was not necessary. During debate, White said Appropriations Committee members had come to the chamber and said about the budget: "This is lean, this is mean, this is responsible. And now we're whacking it out... Budgets are moral documents, and we are kicking to the curb those that Christ pulled to him." As a member of the Revenue Committee, White worked to eliminate the marriage penalty in the state's income tax code and increase tax incentives for research and development. White has tried unsuccessfully to lower the sales tax, noting that