The House gaveled in for just a few moments earlier, and will be in recess until six-o-clock while caucuses commence and negotiations continue behind closed doors. For as dark and dreary as reports were over the weekend, today's slow leak of information seems positively cheery.
Legislators have agreed on the parameters of a new state budget but are still negotiating over the details, including how to fund K-12 education.
House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, said there is tentative agreement on a two-year budget which preserves $1 billion in state reserves. Democrats earlier had wanted only a one-year budget and had pushed for more of the state's bank account to be spent on current needs.
Bauer called the progress "slow." It is, he said, "one slug at a time, one punch at a time."
Senate Republican Luke Kenley also took a cautiously optimistic tone about a compromise bill. Expect a mad rush tonight to finalize details and print a proposal, if one emerges later this afternoon.
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