Senate Committee Ditches House Plan for Budget
The Senate Wednesday dashed the House’s hopes of eliminating from the state budget what some lawmakers consider to be unstable funding.The fiscal hawks in the legislature would, for example, frown on...
View ArticleSenate Shoots Down Fiscal Hawks' Bills
After yesterday’s committee approval, Senators will consider whether to try a new way to write the budget, which will more clearly designate what the legislature has the power to allocate.They’ll also...
View ArticleTime Running Short for Budget Passage
The Senate has given the House a tough decision.Senators rewrote the representatives’ version of the budget, re-allocating arguably unstable funds that the House had painstakingly removed. But it may...
View ArticleLawmakers Scurry to Keep Bills from Dropping Dead
Monday lawmakers and lobbyists hustled across the rotunda that connects the chambers to assemble the votes to keep their bills alive, lest they fall victim to “Drop Dead Day” at the Capitol.Sound...
View ArticleMoney-Generating Bills Held Hostage for Budget Reforms
The fate of next year’s budget rests in the hands of a few legislative leaders, picked by the chambers’ chairs to sort things out behind closed-doors.This year is a little different than years past....
View ArticleWEDNESDAY: Rep. John Bel Edwards, Sen. Robert Adley, Deborah Simmons-Harris...
Guest host Bob Mann talks with Louisiana state lawmakers Representative John Bel Edwards (D-Amite) and Senator Robert Adley (R-Benton) about the state budget conflict and other matters at the Capitol,...
View ArticleTHURSDAY: Former Governor Kathleen Blanco, LA Budget Project's Jan Moller,...
Guest host Bob Mann analyzes the last day of the 2013 Louisiana session with two close observers of the legislature, Jan Moller of the Louisiana Budget Project and journalist Tyler Bridges of The Lens.
View ArticleLawmakers Head Home with Budget and More
Lawmakers are going home having passed a bipartisan $24 billion state spending plan. But they're bringing home more than just the budget to their constituents. WRKF asked lawmakers about the most...
View ArticleLegislative Session Wrap-Up: What Sticks, What Doesn't
State lawmakers cheered the end of the 2013 legislative session Thursday.WRKF’s Kelly Connelly has been following every twist and turn over the past 2 months. News Director Amy Jeffries spoke with...
View ArticleSpeaker Against Special Session
Leadership of the Louisiana state legislature is speaking out against the Democrat minority push to call a special veto session.Democrats want a session to address Governor Jindal’s line-item vetoes to...
View Article
