Two departmental budgets were kicked out of joint House-Senate conference committees this morning. The two budgets are the spending plans for the Department of Labor and Economic Growth and the Department of History, Arts and Libraries, marking the first visible sign of any real movement in weeks on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 budget bills.
WOOD was still muttering the words "shutdown" as of this morning. It's hard to believe that these guys would take it to that point again unless they REALLY want to look bad, and I don't think they do.
My out-on-a-limb bet- this gets done in time to go to the printer tomorrow and be signed on Wednesday so legislators can go trick-or-treating.
Stay tuned...