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OKLAHOMA CITY — Tension mounted in the Oklahoma House of Representatives on Wednesday as Republicans fumed, Democrats held firm in their opposition to the GOP majority’s budget offerings, and Gov. Mary Fallin told a packed news conference that somebody better do something quick about the $1 billion general fund shortfall.

It didn’t happen in the House, where a $340 million cigarette and fuel tax bill was shelved after the 26-member Democratic minority called a news conference to say they wouldn’t vote for it.

And the Republicans, while outnumbering the Democrats 2-to-1, need at least a few of them to reach the three-fourths majority needed to pass a revenue bill.

“They’re too busy grandstanding for the media to sit out here and do what needs to be done,” Rep. Scott Biggs, R-Chickasha, said in a voice shaking with anger near the end of Wednesday’s session.

Republicans say the House Democrats’ resistance is mostly a publicity stunt on behalf of Minority Leader Scott Inman, D-Del City, who is a candidate for governor in 2018.

Inman and the Democrats say if they get a bill that raises the gross production tax on oil and gas, they’ll talk.