If working late were cool, we'd be Miles Davis

We've reached another cut-off today. At 5pm, we will no longer consider opposite house bills, except those bills deemed necessary to implement the budget

We've spent many a late night passing bills, ending at, around, even after midnight each night this week, only to return at 8am to hold more committee hearings on the budget and start all over again.

Speaking of, the House Health & Human Services Appropriations Committee, chaired by Rep. Eric Pettigrew, is currently underway, hearing public testimony on HB 2377 - the proposal to send to the voters of Washington a temporary increase in the state sales tax to help pay for health care and critical safety net programs. Watch it live at TVW here

Joe Turner at the News Tribune has more on the hearing at his blog here.

Following the hearing, House members will blearily return to the Floor to vote on one last package of bills.

PS: Cool as Miles Davis? Impossible.