State Budget amendments

The state House will take up amendments to the House Ways and Means budget proposal over the next couple of weeks. The Blue Mass Group has a post brought over from ONE Massachusetts blog about the amendments and the difficulty in getting through their intent and effect. The post has links to a list of the 978 amendments and a run through of what it takes to understand just one amendment. It is a daunting task just to go through the list. Those political junkies among us might want to check out amendments 155, 190, 213, 225, 226, 496, and 920. I have no idea what ...

...the prospects are for any one of these amendments. There is wheeling and dealing among the representatives that is part of the process of any legislation which will determine what is passed.