LeFavour: ‘These are people’s lives we’re talking about in these budgets’
JFAC is now hurrying through the rest of the divisions of the Health & Welfare budget, as the House had been scheduled to go into session at 10 a.m, 10 minutes ago. Sen. Nicole LeFavour, after being cut off from asking a question because a vote already had been called for, objected when the next motion came. "Mr. Chairman, I realize we're in a hurry to get to the floor. These are people's lives we're talking about in these budgets," she said. "I would like a listing of some of the impacts from the rule savings, please." When the next motion came up, on the Division of Welfare, she got it. A Health & Welfare staffer explained that $1.4 million in savings in the Aid to the Aged, Blind and Disabled program due to rules changes impacted services to about 2,000 people. That budget passed on a 15-4, party-line vote.