MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Time is running out in Alabama’s regular legislative session, and lawmakers still haven’t passed the state’s two budgets, which is required by law.
“This is the most difficult budget we’ve ever had, and it’s not just the amount. It’s lots of other factors that have come into play,” said Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Baldwin County, who chairs the committee that handles the general fund. “These federal funds are going to dry up. They’re going to stop. And our revenues are going to dip,” said Sen. Clyde Chambliss, R-Autauga County.“How do you all sleep knowing that 80 to 82% or 84% of a supplemental budget goes in one direction of the state to the absolute exclusion of the rest of the state,” Hatcher said on the House floor.
Millions of dollars in the south are for a whitewater raft park. Hatcher called it a “huge infrastructure matter, not just for Montgomery and this region, but for this entire state.”
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