Monday, April 12, 2010

Here's the operating budget bill

The striking amendment is now online. Members have until 1 p.m. to place amendments on the bar for consideration.

Note: The bill is 344 pages so it might take a minute to load. You can check out the Cliff's Notes version here.

UPDATE: Important note: LEAP's budget summary is a summary of the 2010 Supplemental Operating Budget ONLY. This budget is a 'rebalancing' of the 2009-11 budget, not a separate new budget. So when certain people try to argue that we only cut $755 million while raising $757 million (as shown on page 6) it's a misleading way to describe how we've balanced the entire 2009-11 budget which includes a full $4 billion in cuts.

As we've said before, "You don't hand out medals to relay runners based on their individual times, but on their cumulative time. It's the same thing with our budget - the only numbers that really matter are the totals at the end."

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