House to do budgeting on its own…

The House Appropriations Committee - the House half of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee - has now scheduled a meeting for 1:15 p.m., after the House goes back on the floor at 1. On the agenda: Introducing 12 new budget bills that apparently will be identical to 12 previously vetoed bills already reintroduced in JFAC this morning, so that they’ll now be House bills the House can act on before its planned unilateral adjournment tomorrow; and two others, an invasive species trailer bill and the ISP budget, that the Senate hasn’t yet acted on, for the same reason. The meeting at first was scheduled for 12:45, but was moved back; click here to read why.