2012 Regular Legislative Session Sine Die cont.

We're on the House Floor debating the Senate's Operating Budget. We just proposed an amendment to not delay payments to public schools. The amendment failed 55-43 with only one Democrat voting with us. We’re debating a few more amendments and then on to debate on final passage.

The Democrats are banking on a delayed payment to public schools, which actually pushes the payment into a completely different biennium. I just finished my comments on the Supplemental Budget and immediately got a text from a friend back home telling me I did a good job with my comments.

There it is, the bipartisan vote here tonight was a no vote on the Supplemental Budget.

#supplemental #budget #no #vote #apportionment #biennium #delayed #payment #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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2012 Regular Legislative Session Day 47

My day started out nicely ... I had the opportunity to meet Newt Gingrich. He gave a fantastic talk to the House Republican Caucus about creating jobs, lowering gas prices, and reforming the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. He also discussed getting a Republican majority in the House this election, based on the 1994 Republican Revolution. He even gave us a couple of talking points that fit well within out messaging.

Best compare and contrast lines of the day for the Republican proposed budget versus the Democrat Majority proposal ...

House Republican budget unveiling: No revenue, no gimmicks (TVW Blog 2/17/12)
Accounting gimmick is big part of state House budget moves (Seattle Times 2/22/12)

And

Republicans offer budget without sales tax hike (Olympian 2/20/12
Budget from House Dems relies on delayed payments (Daily News 2/22/12)

What a great way to start off my day.

#Newt #Gingrich #Democrat #Budget #gimmicks #tax #payment #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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