Democrats still plan to bring budget deal
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats were still trying to reach a budget deal Thursday to plug Wisconsin’s record-high $6.6 billion shortfall.
The plan was supposed to be announced at a bipartisan conference committee meeting in the morning, but after hours of delay there was still no word on when it may start.
A spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, a Democrat from Weston, says the committee still planned to meet to take up the plan.
Decker spokeswoman Carrie Lynch says after the committee votes on the budget, the Senate will meet to vote on it.
The conference committee was called to work out a deal since the $62 billion budget that passed both the Senate and Assembly had major differences. An identical budget must pass both chambers before it can head to Gov. Jim Doyle.
Jun 25, 2009 at 9:29 p.m.
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the fact that this was a "bipartisan" conference committee is nonsense. republican voices have been shut out and have had no input in this budget.
the larger story is that all of the so-called negotiating was done behind closed doors.
had this been a republican administration pulling this BS, every new outlet (conservative and liberal) would've been outraged (and rightfully so).
we will pay for this budget for a long long time.
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