Rand on the budget
Sen. Phil Berger, the Republican leader in the Senate, just asked Majority Leader Tony Rand about the status of budget negotiations on the floor.
"Most part of the budget have been resolved other than the education part and the capital part. Those are the parts we are in the process of trying to resolve those," Rand said.
That's about where the budget negotiators were last night.
"We hope that we will be able to now quickly resolve the remaining parts but we're not quite there yet," Rand said.
Berger also asked whether the budget bill would be a one day or two day bill. Bills that contain new taxes or borrowing must be voted on two separate days.
"It will have to be two days because of the cops - certificates of participation - so it's a two day bill," Rand said. For the uninitiated, COPS are a way for governments to borrow without going through all that messy voter approval needed for bonds.
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Update: The House Appropriations Committee is heading downstairs to a committee meeting - yes at 7:42 p.m. - to do the mini CR I wrote about last night.
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