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Budgeting in the dark

by: Jason Springer

Thu Apr 08, 2010 at 01:30:00 PM EDT



Listening to the budget hearings was pretty interesting with some eye opening exchanges. We learned from the OLS Budget Director that the full budget is still not available online:
"The details of this budget have become available at a slower pace, with less elaboration and much later than in any previous year," Rosen said.

"The delays have been extraordinary, beyond what I would have expected," Rosen said.

You can read his full testimony here. Portions of the detailed budget were just put online in the 24 hours before the budget hearing. That's more than 3 weeks after the budget address, which was delivered later than usual already. In fact, there is this note on the budget page:
THIS PUBLICATION IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND SECTIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE UPON COMPLETION
With analysts of the budget nearly a month behind, very little information available, revenues continuing to come in lower than projected, an extension in filing deadlines for disaster areas and a fundamental disagreement on how to fix the problems we face, you wonder how they will pass a budget on time. We're going to see a good deal of posturing between now and then, but circumstances may also impact the rhetoric. The first indicator of how the public truly is reacting to what is going on will be the votes on school budgets. That may change the landscape once again as people see just how bad the tax increases will be to go along with the cuts they are facing.
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