Day 27 - Back on the House Floor this morning. We're running two bills right now with Speaker Chopp actually presiding over the House ... first time this year! The Workers Compensation reform bill hit a rather large snag yesterday and this morning. It seems the Governor and the Democrat Majority tried to play us and were caught red-handed ... Hehehehehehe, it's nice to be relevant. As long they continue to play games with us, things will continue to be painful for them. I want to be very clear, the proposal forwarded by the Democrats will save no money, increase the cost of administration and offers absolutely no incentive for injured workers to negotiate a lump sum settlement agreement.
As I reported yesterday, there are five major bills necessary to implement the budget; unfortunately, on Day 27 of the First Special Session we have yet to consider any of those five bills. My prediction, we will not get the work done by Wednesday and will be called back in June after the next revenue forecast. By the way, revenue is currently $30 million below the projection, which is less than the original revenue projection the 2009 budget was based upon.
We're debating SB 5912 which expands family planning services to 250% of the federal poverty level ... Yup, I'll be a no. Why are we considering a bill that expands a social service when the state is facing a $5 billion deficit? This is crazy!
We broke for lunch and are back on the House Floor getting ready to run three bills. When we're done with those three it'll bring our total for the day to five.
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