House returns from caucus, adjourns without taking up any bills today

The House has returned from caucus and adjourned for the day without taking any action on bills. Though House Speaker Lawerence Denney had said last week that at the next GOP caucus, he’d ask  members if they wanted to end the lockdown of their office areas in the basement of the state capitol that he imposed in January, the topic didn’t come up today. Instead, the closed-door GOP confab focused on budget issues. “It went long, we had to cut it short,” said House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke, R-Oakley. “We’re going to sit down again next week.”