Decker and Huebsch: We need to resolve budget repair soon
After a 45-minute meeting with Gov. Jim Doyle in his office today, legislative leaders said they want to resolve the projected $525 million budget deficit as soon as possible.
"We see the consequences out there, and we all came to the very real agreement that we need to resolve this soon," Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem said. "There's still differences, we're going to try to work through those and get to an answer very quickly."
"The speaker's right. We're going to keep talking and we're going to try to get this done as soon as we can," Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, D-Weston, said.
Decker said the legislators and Doyle "talked about a couple different combinations" of proposals to bridge the deficit, but he and Huebsch didn't provide details on which proposals.
"To unveil any of that stuff would be premature," Huebsch said.
Huebsch said there shouldn't be any need to delay state road projects or payments to local governments "if we do this soon enough."
Listen to comments from Decker and Huebsch: http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/080501Huebsch_Decker.mp3
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