Doyle again calls for budget resolution
Gov. Jim Doyle once again urged swift legislative action on repairing the budget, and said he hopes the hospital assessment can still be salvaged as part of the adjustment bill.
Speaking with reporters following his address this morning at the second annual Nelson Institute Earth Day conference at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Doyle said that the debate over fixing the deficit should not result in a prolonged fight similar to the biennial budget battle last summer.
"I will be introducing a new biennial budget next January," said Doyle. "And (legislators) can have all those fights then."
Doyle said despite Republicans' denouncement of the hospital assessment plan, he hopes the idea still has a chance because Assembly Republicans are "the only people in the world who are against it."
"I think it has become very obvious to people that if there is $450 million of federal money that is sitting there that the federal government is saying 'here, come and take' it seems pretty hard to understand why anyone would say we shouldn't do it," said Doyle.
--By Matt Steingraber
Labels: Budget_Repair_Bill
