Post by Logan on Jul 2, 2016 5:23:14 GMT -6
The state Senate approved an operating budget for state government on Tuesday and both chambers passed a flurry of other bills as the Thursday end to the legislative session approached.
The Joint Finance Committee that writes the budget had to remove most of the proposals for new spending Gov. Jack Markell had included in his January budget, since estimates for state tax revenues turned out lower than expected.
"There are things that we really would liked to have done, but working together as a group, we found that we had to not do some of these things," said Sen. Harris McDowell, D-Wilmington North and the finance committee's chairman. "This was a difficult year."
Still, McDowell said legislators should be "tremendously proud" of the bipartisan finance committee for assembling a budget that kept the most important government services intact.
Read more: www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/28/senate-passes-budget/86491872/
The Joint Finance Committee that writes the budget had to remove most of the proposals for new spending Gov. Jack Markell had included in his January budget, since estimates for state tax revenues turned out lower than expected.
"There are things that we really would liked to have done, but working together as a group, we found that we had to not do some of these things," said Sen. Harris McDowell, D-Wilmington North and the finance committee's chairman. "This was a difficult year."
Still, McDowell said legislators should be "tremendously proud" of the bipartisan finance committee for assembling a budget that kept the most important government services intact.
Read more: www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/28/senate-passes-budget/86491872/