Decker wants deficit fix in state stimulus package
Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker said he would like to see a state stimulus package include provisions to balance the current fiscal year's projected $594 million budget gap.
Decker, D-Weston, also said he'd like to see a stimulus bill come together before Gov. Jim Doyle delivers his 2009-11 state budget on Feb. 17.
"There's still a few things on the table," Decker said.
Decker and Sen. Mark Miller, the co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee, have been talking with Assembly leaders and the governor about a stimulus package to dovetail with the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Miller, D-Monona, said earlier this week that it was still undecided if the stimulus would include a budget repair, or if that would be put into separate legislation or wrapped into the 2009-11 budget bill.
