Tuesday May 26, 2009
And it’s 8 p.m., shortly after the House culminated a six-hour debate on Election Day voter registration with a soft 81-65 vote that should scream “veto ready,” if the Senate passes it and the bill chugs along to Gov. Jodi Rell.
The Blogster wants to scroll back to May 13, when the House staged its debate on the death penalty. How long was that one? Slightly more than five hours.
Does anybody in the General Assembly recall that there’s a June 3 deadline to pass a new two-year budget? Oh yeah, that June 3 deadline is as soft as the support for the Election Day voter registration. Besides, there will be plenty of time to do the budget in August.
you’re dreaming if you think that the price tag of a special session will make them get a budget passed by June 30. It’s peanuts compared to the big picture. July, maybe August.
The General Assembly has until June 30 to pass the budget….that is the real deadline as that is when the fiscal year ends.
June 3rd is the deadline for the regular session to get everything passed EXCEPT the budget.
If the legislature fails to pass a budget by June 30 – which it WON’T b/c it costs $10,000/day to keep the legislature in session and b/c lawmakers don’t want to keep coming in when they have their regular jobs to return to – then that will be considered as missing the deadline.