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Really, really big joint committee convenes

JFAC joins with the House and Senate health and welfare committees in a joint hearing Monday morning on Health & Welfare and Medicaid budgets. (Betsy Russell)
JFAC joins with the House and Senate health and welfare committees in a joint hearing Monday morning on Health & Welfare and Medicaid budgets. (Betsy Russell)

It looks like a really, really big committee that's holding a joint hearing today on Health & Welfare and Medicaid budgets. That's because the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee - which itself has 20 members - is sitting jointly with the House and Senate health and welfare committees, for a total of 45 lawmakers. First up for the joint hearing is an overview from legislative budget analyst Amy Johnson on where Medicaid funding stands.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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