Sen. Mike Hewitt, Senate Republican Leader State
not off the “budget roller coaster" “The budget we passed today did not get
us off that budget roller coaster. In fact, it sets us up to be in
an even worse situation in two years when we write the next biennial
budget."
Sen. Joe Zarelli, Ranking Republican Member, Senate
Ways and Means Committee Sen. Zarelli
statement on approval of 2009-11 operating budget
“People who will be negatively affected by this budget –
particularly our most vulnerable citizens, parents, students and
teachers – need to know it didn’t have to turn out this way."