The budget address on the 29th was vaguer than I expected it to be and the big gaming issue that the minority caucus of the House has been worried about wasn’t brought up until the last few minutes. The thing that stuck out to me the most about his address was the issue of bonds he had proposed so many millions of bonds to go into different areas such as early childhood education but I am just curious as to where we plan to get that money in the crisis the state is in right now.  One thing that displeased me was that he plans to increase spending for early childhood education but cut back on higher education.  This past week has been very interesting because the budget is starting to become a big issue. The republicans have their so called insights as to what the democrats plan to propose and vice versa.  One thing that I have also started to notice this past week is how most of the work goes on in the halls in offices and primarily in the committee. It seems as if once a bill gets to the floor it will automatically pass. I never realized how much work went behind the scenes and how the testimonials and facts and issues brought up in committee is the pertinent information. I am excited to see how much more debate will happen about the budget as the session goes on.