House Vote A Study In Apathy

It’s 11:20 and the House just approved the budgetary revenue projections, mostly along party lines, 86-35. So a whopping 121 lawmakers of the 151-member chamber took time out from their summer commitments to come to the Capitol to do the people work. There is a total of 151 in the House, so 20 percent of the chamber is absent today. But don’t worry. You’re still paying their salaries, plus the $10,000 or so it’s costing to run the special session today.

The Blogsteer wonders how many more lawmakers will stagger in before the final vote on the Democrats’ bound-to-be-vetoed budget.