As we put together this year's budget, we'll probably be taking a closer look at that. |
Every single bill that a legislator introduces is important to somebody. It might not be important to you or your neighbor or your mother, but it might be important to your doctor or your plumber or your sister. |
Everybody wants to resolve this issue. |
He made his quip about how the Democrats are fiscally responsible and that's just bull. You can't take credit for something already in law. |
Health care costs have skyrocketed. A lot of costs have been rising. |
It's a false argument to say anybody is going to be disenfranchised. The only ones that are going to be disenfranchised are the ones trying to commit fraud. What are [Democrats] hiding from? What are they scared of? |
Our main cost is people ? salaries and staff. |
That's one of the issues why the House was fighting for more. |
The feeling is that the issues surrounding the building ... have been pretty well publicly aired and they're basically resolving themselves. So it really doesn't seem the need to run that resolution exists any longer. |
The huge difference is that this budget is more reality-based. |
There is no intent to sneak a pay raise back in. |
They work with this stuff more regularly. |
We actually are at the beginning stages of not using outside counsel as much. We're planning to use in-house more often. |