98 percent
Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch said this day was a long time coming, but he knew it would come - when a bipartisan group of legislators passes a state budget.
In his opening statement on the budget bill, Huebsch said the compromise bill keeps government spending in line with taxpayers ability to pay. Ninety-eight percent of the tax hikes in the Senate Democrats' plan have been eliminated, he said.
"We said no to the notion that we could tax our way out of a spending problem," he said.
