Tuesday, January 02, 2007

The Session...less than a week away

With only 6 days left to the Session, legislators are preparing this week for a quiet time under the gold dome. A recent article in the Savannah Morning News quotes Sen Eric Johnson, R-Savannah as saying that "I don't know that the citizens of the state want radical change and radical solutions whether they are on the right or on the left." Vicky Eckenrode goes on to write that
The state's finances also are murky despite a nearly $600 million surplus in the spending year that ended June 30. Georgia could need billions of dollars in the next 30 years to provide health care for retirees, and new accounting rules will require states to at least mention those costs in their budgets.
Famous last words - in the end, you never know...As House Majority Leader Jerry Keen, R-St. Simons Island said, "There are always things that pop up that you don't see on the radar." Check back here for daily entries from the Capitol on our progress.

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