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It's what the people wanted
by Sam Hanna, Jr. - posted E-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
Though the regular session got dicey recently over the use of one-time revenues to finance ongoing state expenses, the Legislature will wrap things up early next week and yes, one-time monies will be in play to balance the more than $25-billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

That's a certainty that conservatives in the House of Representatives will accept because pursuing the alternative represents political suicide. Knowing the Senate would never sign off on a budget that doesn't include using one-time revenues, the alternative would entail ending the regular session by its constitutionally mandated deadline on Monday without a spending plan in place to operate the state in the 2012-2013 fiscal year.

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