Denver Post story about budget cut
I was on the floor for about 7 hours trying to reduce personnel costs by 1.6% and every proposal was killed except for the cut to the Ag Dept. I’ll have more later, but here’s the Denver Post news story:
Colorado House gives initial OK to huge cuts to balance budget: Denver Post 2/18/2010
Colo. House cutting $475 million from state budget
Water fight skews budget (Lawmakers must eliminate $1B in March) Durango Herald 2/18/2010
Colorado House gives initial OK to huge cuts to balance budget The Denver Post 2/18/2010
Colo. House cutting $475 million from state budget 9News.com 2/17/2010
Curry challenging budget process
Colorado’s first unaffiliated lawmaker since 1891 is going to do what she didn’t think she could do as a Democrat: challenge the budget process. The Denver Post politics blog by Lynn Bartels 2/10/2010
Read moreLegislative Update (Sunday 2/14/2010)
Last week was a busy one at the Statehouse. On Friday, HB 1188, the commercial outfitting bill, passed the House on second reading after several hours of debate. The bill will be up for a third reading vote on the House floor tomorrow (Monday) morning. If the bill passes it will go to the Senate, [...]
Read moreToday we voted on 10 bills that involved sales tax exemptions or new sales taxes.
I voted against the most significant of these, House Bills 1190, 1992, 1193, 1194, and 1195. While I am very aware of the fact that the state’s budget is out of balance by over $40 million for the current fiscal year, I was not able to support these bills.
I believe that the General Assembly [...]
State Budget
We continue to read in the papers that the state’s revenues are going to be down next year, the federal stimulus money will be gone, and the budget will require major trimming. We also hear alot of people running for office making generalized statements about how they will “fix the problem”. After having studied [...]
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