The Senate Site: Burning through $2 Million per day

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Burning through $2 Million per day

Dueling Views on Special Session:
-- "This is a matter of doing good fiscal management …. The longer we wait to make those cuts, the longer we burn money that we don't have at $2 million dollars a day, the deeper the respective cuts need to be at the other end, because we are constitutionally bound to manage and to balance our budget. That is the sense of urgency."

-- House Speaker-elect David Clark (KCPW)

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-- "It is sort of the longitudinal haircut of 7 or 8 percent, without any thought given to programs and how they would be affected, that I don't think represents good public policy for the people of this state. …What you're forced to do during the legislative session is to convene the various subcommittees that would then evaluate very carefully what these cuts would mean to real people in human services, higher education, public education, and so we all understand through these open hearings what a cut of 3, 5, 7, or 15 percent would mean."

-- Gov. Jon Huntsman (KCPW)