Governor Christine Todd Whitman budget address to New Jersey legislature

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it's this weighs on the sidelines are amateurs message from the senate for the morning till legislature joint session to be an original simply the clearing governor christie when delivering a budget path towards protectionism thank you speak to recognize senator from monmouth county senate majority leader john bennett think of as president i lived at this joint session of the second annual session of the two hundred and fifteen legislature to now come to order recognize the sentiment of salem county assembly majority leader jack well i

second the motion all of the famous ai i sat on in life was second the senate forty thousand with reforms president at this joint session of the two and six legislature as such you all please rise for a prayer to be delivered by the reverend dr freidel fellow third of the trinity united methodist church in pakistan new jersey letters right oh god and father of us all eternal source of wisdom and love we bow before you now in a humble acknowledgment that all of our accomplishments and efforts were made possible only by your grace and power you have given us life invited us in the living apart days you have given us challenges and the strength to meet them you have given us each other and the joy of human friendship and love and so in gratitude we pause to give you thanks oh god let the mystery of work you have placed us in this good land of freedom and principal invited our

ancestors to build a new nation on this problem anne and gave them the faith to believe that this nation could become one in spirit with liberty and justice for all read us the will to continue their dream keep us vigilant in upholding the great foods undergirding our country that we may never taken for granted and keep us mindful of the glorious heritage we have been given me my carefully guard and protecting human liberties we hold so dear and which are so rare in this world or teach us remember our days that we may be wise in the living of each one and may the days of this legislature be filled with wisdom in guiding and directing our state keep their vision clear their hearts your they're thoughts positive and their spirits courageous and in times of difficulty guide them to turn to you when making hard decisions and so we try your blessing upon our governor and legislature and all the labor faithfully to support them but at the end of each day they may receive your commendation well

done good and faithful servant amen amen mr president i wish to inform the joint session at the governor has arrived with a committee to wait on the governor please escort her to the podium senators singer sara martin sarah kenney sarah littman assemblyman kavanagh summit woman greco some women roberts an assemblywoman joan quigley the pain the pick

the other before you start it i just want to say hello to speaker and of course many others here today that we like to wish you all the best as you prepare for tomorrow night's national parents your selection really

is proof that the best of new jersey is the best in the nation the patients but the patients the pain the governor of the great state of new jersey the animal christie todd whitman it's b thank you sam present different just go and good afternoon to everyone last year i promise the taxpayers of this budget would be different and it is more than ever know for it's your

budget we have town meetings around the state every cabinet member conducted public hearings we promised to reach out from radio and television to hear your concerns we said we listen and we did this fifteen point nine billion dollar budget represents the hard work not only of our treasure and his staff but of thousands of people who aren't even on the public payroll and i want to take this opportunity to thank you mothers and fathers teachers and truck drivers secretaries and small business owners for sharing your ideas with us your involvement matters because as i said last year the budget is a policy document is the roadmap of state government your input is essential in determining our direction and our destination we're not through yet on thursday i will hold the first ever televised

statewide town meeting to get your comments on the budget we're setting up an eight hundred number two you can call in your comments and the budget summary and speech will be on the internet and in our public libraries by wednesday i hope you'll surf the net or scan the shelves and let us know what you think i am proud of this budget he keeps promises it uses common sense to invest our dollars and cents wisely and it accomplishes a lot it absorbs the enormous cost of taking over the county courts it complies with the supreme court's ruling on school funding it helps municipalities support education and provide for new jersians in me it reduces the state's reliance on one shot revenues from one point six billion dollars two years ago to three hundred and forty eight million dollars this year a seventy eight percent reduction it's

b and it includes a five hundred million dollars surplus essential to preserving new jersey's bond ratings last year's budget set us on the right course our tap tax cuts establish credibility with the people more important they help create jobs for the people the numbers speak louder than words this past year the private sector has created sixty thousand new jobs that's the point thousands more new jersians who were supporting their families and contributing to their communities we must continue to cut taxes we're still competing for jobs and businesses with other states across the nation last year i

promise to cut the state income taxes by thirty percent over three years for most new jersians i said lower taxes would be good for the economy and good for our citizens today we're halfway there we have already cut income taxes fifteen percent for most new jersians we remove three hundred and eighty thousand lower income citizens from the tax rolls entirely and the tax cuts are working even better than i thought our job growth has put tax revenues in the state coffers faster than we expected so why wait to reinvest in new jersey's future why wait to return as much money as we can to the taxpayers why wait until next year to keep a promise we can keep now today i am asking the legislature to complete a thirty percent tax cut in the

polls but rebecca january first nineteen ninety six i want families earning up to eighty thousand dollars and individuals who were not the forty thousand dollars to pay thirty percent less than they did just two years ago fb families making up to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars would pay at least twenty three percent less and taxes and families earning more would save at least ten percent i want all families to have

more each year to spend save or invest as they see fit and i want the same for business in this budget i am proposing three business tax cuts designed to create new jobs jobs in our inner cities for jobs and growing industry jobs throughout new jersey our first proposed business tax cut is a change in the corporate tax policy to encourage mold i stay companies to invest and employed people in our state the pain will benefit small business which create up to ninety five percent of our new jobs i'm calling for the repeal of the telecommunications tax sales tax and yellow pages at yeah time also calling for a reduction in the corporate income tax rate from nine percent to seven point five percent

for small corporations earning less than a hundred thousand dollars a year the pain new jersey's small business tax the lowest in the region morris says no lawmakers dozen years you establish a trend before i ever arrived your help me keep my promises to the people i would especially though today like to acknowledge the dedication energy and reliability of one legislator whose name should be synonymous with tax cuts and promises kept assembly speaker john kreiter you have made a positive difference in this chamber and

in people's lives since you and i were working on another budget together i couldn't let this occasion pass without thanking you on behalf of all the people of new jersey for the superb job you have done as speaker the pain our income and business tax cuts are working to put more new jersians back to work some argue that these tax cuts will force local private property taxes to rise that simply isn't so the state does not collect a penny of the property tax the state does not spend a penny of the property tax those functions are the exclusive domain of the counties and municipalities and the school district's property taxes reflect local spending decisions high property taxes are the price homeowners pay as

school boards and local and county governments struggle to control costs it is the policy of this administration to help them win that struggle that is why this budget increases spending for education and local governments buy almost four hundred million dollars ad fb we also fully fund the homestead rebate program for qualified senior citizens and the disabled and we are going to strive to take the guesswork and anxiety out of local budget making process we propose consolidating at municipal aid programs into ford just as important we will announce the distribution of both the consolidated property tax relief fund and eighty five million dollars in excess gross receipts not later but now before local

budgets are introduced in february it's been last year i promise we would help towns and school districts become more efficient so they could cut property taxes are local budget review teams are doing just that so far they have found potential property tax savings averaging more than ten percent in town says the verses passaic willing or invent anew we will eliminate legal barriers to regional variation so the counties towns and school districts can combine resources more easily we can also make life a whole lot easier on the taxpayers by reforming the binding arbitration laws in new jersey it's b should be allowed to strike a balance between labor is legitimate demands on a town's ability to play i urge the

legislature to pass a fair and sensible binding arbitration bill and to do it now i will also push for a state mandate state a constitutional amendment to appear on the ballot this november it's been all these measures will help local governments to keep their property taxes down but not everyone will be happy with this budget we will continue to face at the ncaa to municipalities because it has inserted justifiable public purpose and as we increase foundation aid to special needs districts by a hundred million dollars to comply with the supreme court mandates we will have less flexibility in funding other districts under this fighting the majority of school districts to receive a funding increase the majority of those that do those eight will lose an amount that is less than one percent of their overall budget this budget will

provide substantial aid increases for regular education and special education programs to all districts that are enrolling more students we will provide additional aid to reward efficient regionalized school districts but we won't reward waste it is well known that we spend more per pupil than any other state but is embarrassing that we ranked forty nine in the percentage that reaches the classroom starting this year the state will reduce funding for districts that spanned more than thirty percent above the state average and bureaucracy it's been our message to these districts is clear if you waste money and run up

huge bills don't expect the state's taxpayers pick up the tab those days are over the pain policy governing every measure we take an education can be summed up in these four words the children come first the pain and running state government the taxpayers come first i cannot in good conscience as local governments and school boards to do what we're not willing to do ourselves it is the cost of this administration to live within its means disband each wisely and it collects revenues responsibly yes this budget does propose nineteen million dollars and fee increases some of which have not been raised since the nineteen seventies these fee increases account for

twelve one hundred ths of one percent of the overall budget this budget also includes measures designed to capture every text out that is out because we all pay for every tax dollar that the treasury fails to collect really control government spending in a myriad of ways first we have applied a hundred and twenty nine million dollars in cuts to government operations the operating budgets in fourteen state department's have actually been reduced second r government that works initiative is finding efficiencies program by program it is generated nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in savings we will save one hundred and thirty one million dollars from human services without cutting services to clients following the successful privatization six they operated daycare centers last year we were turning over the remaining five to the private sector this year we are consolidating five hundred and sixty seven municipal general assistance programs into twenty eight county and municipal operations

and we propose to sell off the statement hmo because government shouldn't do what the private sector can do better it's been forty six million dollars in savings have come from the department of corrections by such means as cutting overtime hours and re assigning officers from desk jobs to custody duty eighteen million dollars have come out of transportation some other through the proposed privatization of the remaining state run motor vehicle agencies and at last i can tell you that in new jersey only one agency regulates the debt the cemetery board will be moved into the division of consumer affairs and cut its staff costs in half the

pain these savings inefficiencies are only the beginning i had instructed our government that works with to focus on cost cutting issues like german technology assets sales and personnel reforms that would yield cost savings for years to come but we will never produce leaner smarter government until we get a handle on spiraling labor costs we have to reduce the state payroll and control our health insurance costs and we will this budget could result in the elimination of as many as thirty four hundred positions eight hundred and twelve state jobs will be eliminated by streamlining and consolidating units in nine state department's and we estimate three hundred and forty five positions will be eliminated through planned attrition in the departments of treasury and corrections competitive contracting a privatization could affect more than twenty two hundred positions allowing private firms and nonprofit agencies to compete with the public sector to provide certain services is simply common

sense let me be quite clear on this point preserving positions that we cannot justify only makes government less responsive and more expensive we're trimming the state workforce to improve state governments these reductions will help government set priorities and will serve the public better i realize that's little comfort to those who may be affected losing a job whether through competitive contracting a programmatic changes is a blow and it is a loss i cannot and will monitor state that fact i want one by the state employees unions right now to work with us to explore ways to alleviate the impact of restructuring on the workforce under the direction of and then so many my commissioner personnel i'm asking that the discussions begin immediately on this important task when we're talking about issues as serious as layoffs is only fair that everyone on the payroll tighten their belts

more and more employees in the private sector participate in managed health care programs we are therefore asking our employees to pay the difference if they choose a health plan that is more expensive than our own managed care program new jersey plus we will also seek and extensive practice that forces taxpayers to foot the bill for two health insurance policies in one family on the state payroll and because at one percent of new jersey's private sector employees pay their share of health insurance premiums it's time for state management to do the same beginning july first the state's non union employees will begin a three year phase in over twenty percent employee contribution to their health insurance premiums as an employer the state will do its part to ease the financial burden of these changes we will establish a program that will permit public employees to pay health insurance and childcare costs with pretax dollars this is not only

sound fiscal policy is also sound family policy we're taking a common sense approach to state operations we're also using common sense to cut spending in expenses while improving services to vulnerable members of our society we can stop problems and save money by stressing prevention and early intervention that is why this budget makes initial ten million dollar investment to reform our juvenile justice system now for the first time the new commissions will have the authority to coordinate the entire range of services for juvenile offenders preventing juvenile crime and effectively intervening at the first sign of trouble or make their neighborhoods safer and our futures brighter moving her state's medicaid patients and manage care makes sense because it will give them quality primary care and cut down costs him and visits to emergency rooms and the time has come to create the group homes and community programs need to begin closing developmental centers and mental hospitals this will give those who already the

opportunity to live and work more independently in the community we're not closing institutions to save money in fact i am asking the legislature to provide more than eight million dollars in bridge loans to help people with developmental disabilities and people with mental illnesses make this a vital transition at one time or another each of us may need government to lend a helping hand oh we all need government to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink we must keep new jersey clean for our citizens today and for the generations to come but we should not spent huge sums of money to protect the environment where we can get the same results for a fraction of the cost that's why we're streamlining the department environmental protections management and moving the department away from its reliance on fees and fines it's

been that is why i fought so hard in washington to find a less expensive and more convenient way for new jersey to follow the clean air act i didn't see why the taxpayers have to shell out seven hundred and eighty one million dollars for untried emissions testing system just because it happened at a seal of approval because we convince washington to let us meet clean air standards are way we say new jersey's taxpayers three hundred and sixty one million dollars and more aggravation in any motor should have to bear the pain the air we breathe will be just as clean we've adopted the same kind of approach to protect our drinking water with the legislatures support new jersey has committed up to ten million dollars to purchase and

preserve sterling forest in partnership with new york state and the federal government this single forest protect drinking water for one out of every four new jersians letting nature cleanses water not only makes environmental sense but also saves us the far greater cost of building treatment plants last year a proposed a major change in how we govern new jersey's colleges and universities i pledged the state would interfere with these institutions less and support the more our plan is working with more autonomy our campuses are seizing fresh opportunities for collaboration and excellence that's a credit to the college presidents of trustees their faculties and the students themselves today we continue our commitment to those teams this budget increases higher education funding by nearly forty one million dollars it adds one point eight million dollars more to the educational opportunity fund we provide full funding for tuition aid grants for needy students to help maintain questions and

campuses this budget includes unnecessary gets service for the higher education trust fund most important we're crease increasing at every sector state's current state colleges and universities county colleges and the independence because we need every one of them to help move new jersey forward just as we need to invest in our campuses for economic growth we need to assure continuance of the transportation trust fund to preserve and enhance our infrastructure an additional three point five billion dollars over the next four years will meet the needs demands of a growing economy well into the next century it hold the line on new jersey transit fares it invests in federal clean air standards it includes fifty million dollars additional every year for municipalities and counties and that health plans and helps fund two hundred and fifty thousand jobs it's been i look forward to working with the legislature meeting this important

responsibility nineteen ninety four we began to do things differently and we're getting better results families have faith in the future business confidence is soaring and we're moving forward but we can assume that our successors will continue on their own we must stay on track we have to keep cutting taxes and making every dollar counts staying on track will not be easy as i've said before they will be winners and losers in this budget there have to be if we are going to give everyone a fair chance to win in the long run every line item in the us but his budget has a constituency group behind we will be hearing from them in the coming months and we welcome better ways to achieve our goals but we cannot and we will not give

into those who simply object because they fear change the pain and we cannot put dollars back in the budget to support programs that do not belong here or that have been badly managed we build this budget we built this budget to support the principles upon which i was elected we will be frugal and spend your money wisely not to make government bigger but to make government better and to give you and your families more control over your own lives this budget keeps our promises as always i look forward to working with all the members of this legislature under the leadership of president different chess coach and speaker right time

i will rely on the expertise the experience of senate budget and appropriations chairman bob would tell an assembly appropriations chairman walter caplan i believe in giving our citizens the tools and the flexibility they need to make new jersey the healthiest most compassionate and most prosperous state in the nation we are all partners in this enterprise as we worked together over the next six months let us go forward in good faith by disney our goals of fiscal responsibility promote prosperity that is keep our promises to the people of new jersey the and

they'll soon as y'all please drive or where to be delivered by forever father away in her art of st george's episcopal church in helmand jersey say lord god centered son into the world to release power of your spirit your norwegian ask you to pour out your spirit upon these your servants who entrusted with authority of governments eastern you have placed here to do your car out upon them a spirit of wisdom and knowledge of truth the spirit of peace and

righteousness and equip them with your gifts but they may not only discern what is true and what is truly good they may have the power and the strength and the courage to accomplish it and then your holy name be praised from this time forth and for evermore the lord bless us and keep us the lord make his face to shine upon us and the gracious to us and the lord shall the light of his countenance and give us his piece this day and for evermore on iran mechanize sen bennet i moved up his joint session of the legislature you now arrives sentiment violent side second the boat's hull of paris and i was i sat in

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right i'm here with four members of the assembly and the senate three of them are budget officers and one is that the leader i have that the speaker jack collins of the assembly and seventeen joe roberts is the democratic budget officer in the assembly and here i have senator bernie kenny who is the democratic budget officer in the senate and republican bob would sell is the chairman of the senate appropriations committee and i think quickly we should go down a line here and hear what each of you in fifteen to twenty seconds would say about the weapons budget joe roberts the difficulty is that the governor's cutting taxes which is cutting the wrong tax property taxes of the problem here in new jersey and was sorely assume the governor had better income tax cut but the average teachers you'd save about forty dollars an income tax that's paid over a hundred and seventy dollars more in property taxes that's really what the governor should focus on anything that she does is a matter of his budget the results in higher property taxes she has to take responsibility for your gold debate going on that point b while jack can sort of think of this what's it what do you think of this budget well i think that

once again we had a governor stepping up is doing what she said she'd go solar roberts misses about property taxes income taxes over whether iran or not thirty percent cut in income tax people this they said we want you governor would mean that we want to see now is offered that up in two years a thirty percent cut off she's also kept on the municipalities level funding of schools are more money put into various programs this a first watch we see the details on oprah sure looks like christy webber once again to show why she's won the nation's leaders well let's think i'm all about this the governor has reduced the income tax which reduces recurring revenue to the state by a billion and a half dollars yet this budget raises spending by a billion dollars since governor tim florio left the state house a billion dollars more every do sing bible in half and recurring revenue lavishly paid for he pays for it with this because he's paying for it borrowing money transportation trust fund

seven hundred fifty million dollars to a billion dollars of underfunding the state pension and two hundred and fifty million dollars of additional taxes less than fees over the last two years that's how the governor's they've worked with a critical public so what you think of this book i think just outstanding citizens of the state he's cutting taxes cutting spending increase in money for education and providing the essential services in and reality and everything that the citizens of the state well not surprisingly we've gotten a fairly partisan reaction to this budget the big question that a lot of people have about this budget is whether there is a real pain in here or whether the governor has managed to parse out the pain high the pain shift the pain perhaps into the future let's have a little debate on this subject is the real pain in his blood wayne is a third because she's borrowing money and because he's using the people's money to pay for but it would be like if i gave you my credit card michael tonight

and you took everybody out to dinner and then you give me my credit card back and you don't even have to pay the bill that's what's going on it has no pain for human use in a credit card they can everybody out to dinner but this thing for me when the bill comes to the bill's going to come due in the form of higher property taxes happy taxes on the gym floor year when the democrats when we last had control the governorship and the legislative bodies one up one percent since republicans had taken control of the legislature now the governor's office they've gone up over fifty percent cumulatively and this year we expect a lop another five or six where the pain is well i can respond to the first part with regard to senator kennedy's concern about the painter paint is a relative term and there are always people as the governor said on everyone on and there's a constituency but what senator said is what will happen in the future i mean hearing that way it's three years the republicans that control the legislature we've been hearing is from the minority party we cut a billion dollars from governor florida's budget we heard that the sky was going to fall into new jersey there are three years later the economy expanding more

money than ever before going to school students about east and it's this kind of rhetoric doesn't do anything good for government christie women's prison an affair that budget and we'll see how it fares as it moves through the process and where the votes from the roberts' you talk about property taxes though the governor in her remarks talks about increasing local a three hundred million dollars more to schools one hundred million more than municipalities how can you say that though she's driving up property taxes if he is also managing to find ways of serving more aid to local governments michael by her own admission she wondered at school districts in the state but have actual cuts in their a and many others and they simply kept stable level in the end result of that is that they're going to have real increases the real increases in terms of the property tax in the community spoke about pain and property taxes is one piece of a discovery is proposing as i'm sure you know to charge people five dollars every time they walked into a division of motor vehicles office now the tax discount coupons and supermarkets your needs to be said when this governor talks about downsizing state government and her commitment to doing more with less and local

governments falling for example she has are thirty percent more employees making fifty thousand dollars or more and seventy four percent more employees making seventy thousand dollars or more they will more for health insurance is she is but i think that the people of new jersey would like to see less of that because she certainly got a laying off work the size of the workforce by three thousand i will believe that when i see it because frankly for florio downsize say governor cuomo's ten thousand police she is running far behind that kind of an example so it's all to she's gaining just lose a lot of revenue by cutting taxes another fifteen percent and by the way are you surprised about that now not all it i knew all along that we want to reach out early on a near term that's just good for the history to the economy the economy is that demonstrated the ability to generate more money and he's always said we should not keep one axis and we should return the money that we don't need them and stay

calm i think most people were surprised by you may have been informed at its time but i think your fellow legislators were kept in the dark until this morning so it would leak out well now i was not informed that time an idea i was not surprised because i know that we're gonna work and likes to keep her word and she likes to demonstrate to the people in the state that he's serious about what he's going to offer like surprises but let me ask you this if the state is going to lose revenue from this income tax cut is the governor just making it up by what she calls closing tax loopholes and we heard joe roberts seo increasing fees the new motor vehicle fleet of closing a tax loophole by extending the sales tax moves in store coupons hundred million dollars over the last two years and raised by the government cluster of these new taxes two hundred fifty million so are we all pay into or disguised form as she goes about doing it live for cutting taxes not all things as a lot of his focus on an allied with these are raised every year every year that i've been in the legislature somebody finds a fee that has been changed

in the last twenty years and used to be updated because we're and make enough money to run the agency or department that's all that's about as natural in the last two years they have increased these eighteen million dollars last year twenty million dollars this year than a hundred and twenty million dollars in order to fund the transportation for us one and then another twenty million dollars in new taxes this year that's two hundred and fifty million dollars which was attributable to governor within that nothing like this happen than the democrats in the last four years some it's fairly new in this budget a new trend in new to the rhetoric of governors its privatization the governor wants to cut twenty two hundred jobs over the next twelve months miami's of privatizing various state services the only one i think she really discussed in her speech that was the division of motor vehicles are leased the motor vehicle inspection system i feel about turning over services that people have been accustomed to government performing to the private sector and having those government workers who lose their jobs well i think

we had to go slow on that one if there's one any area the governor's presentation that that i'm stepping back from is a privatization area and you phrased it so well michael levi government doing this is prior are private companies going to do a better more cheaply that's something we have to talk about but overall even in our most controversial areas maybe dmv is one of them and that what happens is that people still are used to a certain level service and continue to move on through their live here in new jersey about of course there is a job more on the other hand the state of new jersey has to be giving the citizens the best bang for its buck that it can and that you have to look at i think interested the deal discussion that area was the democratic take on privatization i would reject car the lincoln in this one instance i think we need to look at what the private sector can do versus the public sector public sector services have to be provided in a way this cost effective and then it really makes sense in the grand scheme of things we've looked over very carefully what's the most

notable thing about this budget from each of your perspective so i'm going through a laundry list of some of the highlights for what's really notable in this budget that it's the biggest spending but in this instance there is the sixteen billion dollars when it only is going up by eighty three percent which is roughly the rate of inflation and the governor's office argues that it would have actually gone down spending would actually go down next year but for three extraordinary items like saying but the precipitation in the sky would be raining i mean you have an obligation to govern or to deal with all items including extraordinary once the budget is going up by five hundred million dollars sixteen billion dollar but a big spender in the ceiling of sixteen billion spending a billion dollars more than government for years spent his last budget i think that's the most telling think if the republicans get the sales tax and the issue of credibility around spending i think that's very very part in this but bob wood so what's notable it like that said the complaint and the democrats are complaining that the year but just gotten up when we cut the budget one point one billion dollars or any democrat votes for it

you know smaller government here there weren't any democratic votes for a family the reality of his program is that sees increasing aid education says increasing aid to municipalities she's stabilizing our state government is tightening up the operations she's doing what needs to be done she cares about the state is people joe roberts what's notable about this budget deal so the scene that that holds altogether is the the assault on the middle class majors instantly property taxes are a big part of that charging people in the motor vehicle starting a pretty positive about the supermarket those things are really troubling to the average taxpayer in the state i think this budget will those things are small they're very symbolic that shows that we have a governor just can't relate to the average taxpayer in the state cecala says what's notable in this what you from your vantage point i think what is not notable is is that we have a democrat minority party right away attacking the governor talking about the budget in these relatively small miniscule areas to sexism is a miniscule wary of the property taxes are are not in

years but i think we're the cover say very clearly the state of new jersey is not raised property taxes it doesn't collect money from property taxes there's more money going to be honest about it in this budget than ever before and anytime with those was last year when donors with his first budget and republican legislature set more money to municipalities there before but interestingly this is notable that may i understand why democratic polity concerned about the scoop on problem lisa's they view him to some will talk about what its fifty million dollars overall that have an impact on the people of my same colleagues we cut six hundred million dollars in about two years ago with a couple of sales that they were saying it's only a penny six hundred million euro republican guard senator were outside by one thing joe robertson said collins and thirty kenny and robert would sell i think we just got a little preview can of what the debate in the legislature over this budget is going to be like over the next five months the budget has to be passed and balanced by june thirtieth like you said

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