The legislature's Appropriations Committee Wednesday, in a 38-16 vote largely along party lines, cut the budget for fiscal 2009 by $21 million from the $18.4 billion original allocation. The cut also entirely wipes out a $110 million increase proposed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
The House and Senate may vote as soon as Tuesday on the supplemental budget, a mix of cuts and increased spending designed to keep the state budget balanced through June 30. The budget received unanimous, bipartisan support from the Appropriations Committee just before midnight Friday.
Members of legislative budget committees on Feb. 18 saw how a secretive budget proposal that has been circulated around the Capitol in recent weeks stacks up to the budget plan offered by Gov. Jan Brewer, but much of the discussion focused on who drafted the authorless spending plan. The comparison of the two plans was presented by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in a joint hearing of the House and Senate Appropriations committees. Although several lawmakers in the House - both Republican and Democrat - have said they participated in discussions that led to the third-party budget proposal, none have claimed outright ownership of the plan.
State Sen. Doug Davis of Hernando had a primary election coming up this past August, and his stance on education funding was coming back to haunt him during the sultry days of summer leading up to the vote. As chairman of the powerful, budget-writing Senate Appropriations Committee, the local Republican legislator had a big say in how much funding went to school systems throughout cash-strapped Mississippi during the legislative session earlier this year. The funding levels Davis supported didn't sit well with educators back home.
A Democratic majority in the House Appropriations Committee on Monday shot down a $27.3 billion Republican-backed state budget. The ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee, Rep. Mario Civera of Delaware County, said the bill's 20-14 defeat in committee puts the brakes on any significant headway in the budget process. The budget is due by law on June 30.
Governor Christie is planning to raid New Jersey's clean energy and transportation funds -- but not scale back his proposed income tax cut -- now that a $676 million budget shortfall has punctured his "Jersey Comeback. That shortfall was announced by the Christie administration during an Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting Wednesday, with the state treasurer acknowledging to lawmakers that the Republican governor's spending plans must be revised because Christie overestimated the scale of the state's economic recovery.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Vicki Ekstrom, +1-202-224-9431, Victoria_Ekstrom@sbc.senate.gov, or Matthew Berger, +1-202-224- 8493, Matthew_Berger@sbc.senate.gov, both of U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship
This is the time of year for predictions, so here's ours for what we see happening when the Appropriations Committee begins its hearings today. No one will stand up to speak in defense of wasteful spending. There will not be a single person who thinks a little fraud is OK. There will be zero voices raised in support of abuse.
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