Majority Democrats announced spending targets Thursday for roughly half of the state's budget and rejected an expansion of the bottle bill and changes in corporate income tax laws.

Democratic Gov. Chet Culver has been pushing for both proposals.

''We're not moving forward on the two main items he was talking about,'' said Sen. Bob Dvorsky, D-Coralville, who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Democrats who run the House and Senate held a news conference to announce spending target for about $3.3 billion in programs ranging from education to health and human services. That's about half the state's budget.

To reach that goal, legislators had to make decisions about Culver's proposals for new revenues, and they opted to turn thumbs down on both.

Culver asked lawmakers initially to double the nickel deposit on bottles and cans and use some of that money to pay for environmental programs. He's since scaled back that proposal and said he'd talk with opponents to seek a compromise.

Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, said there simply weren't enough votes to pass an overhaul of the deposit law.

''We did not see the Legislature reaching a consensus on an approach to those issues,'' said Gronstal. ''There were a lot of different people concerned about a lot of angles, a lot of different approaches. When it was all said and done, I don't think there was a way to reach consensus. There are not 26 votes for any particular change.''