House members were hours-deep into the tax plan, which includes a new natural gas extraction tax, taxes on cigars and smokeless tobacco and a dime-a-pack increase in cigarette taxes when debate was brought to an abrupt halt and the bill was kicked back into the House Appropriations Committee.

The debate over the severance tax revealed deep fissures among the 102 House Democrats, some of whom favor a tax scheme crafted by Democratic leaders, while others back a plan sponsored by Finance Committee Chairman Dave Levdansky, D-Allegheny.

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