"This is a real budget and a balanced budget. It is a budget that attempts to share the sacrifices of this very difficult time."
     -Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown

-"The Senate budget will add over 7,000 people to the ranks of the unemployed."
     -Sen. Margarita Prentice

-"These are tough decisions. But people are living through tough decisions every day."
     -Sen. Chris Marr

"There isn't anyone in this room...who isn't looking and finding things that they care about. This truly is devastating on all of us."
     -Sen. Prentice

-"We've heard the message loud and clear that the public is skeptical of whether or not these cuts are real."
     -Sen. Brown

"Instead of streamlining government and delivering services more efficiently and effectively, the Senate proposes to use nearly $5 billion in one-time federal and state money to backfill the overspending of the last four years."
     -Rep. Gary Alexander, R-Olympia

-"...the Senate Democrats are choosing to increase K-12 classroom sizes so they can allocate more taxpayer dollars for state-employee health care, cut access to our colleges and universities in favor of continuing health care for illegal immigrants, and reduce support for nursing homes instead of freezing wages for all state employees."
     -Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield

-"The last thing we wanted to cut was education...We're not playing games here...This is a gut-wrenching day."
     -Sen. Tracey Eide

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