Nevada: Barbara Buckley

As the economy gets worse and the governor's budget gets scrutinized, the state's budget hole is growing. Speaker Barbara Buckley estimated on Monday that there is another $100 million difference between revenues and expenditures compared to the budget Gov. Jim Gibbons submitted just six weeks ago.

Assemblyman Ty Cobb sure likes to join groups. To be more specific, he likes to create groups. During December’s special session, Cobb created the “Assembly Conservative Caucus,” which silently abstained from voting on Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley for speaker. And now he’s formed an all-new club, to be known as the Nevada Republican Study Committee, or [...]

CARSON CITY – “This is going to be a Herculean task,” said Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, toward the end of a marathon hearing on the impacts of the federal stimulus bill on Nevada’s budget. And she wasn’t joking.
If lawmakers participating in the joint Assembly Ways & Means/state Senate Finance committee meeting today learned anything, it [...]

Democratic legislative leaders continue to decline to provide specifics about how they'll fix the state's fiscal mess. Instead, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford and Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, both Las Vegas Democrats, held a press conference today to discuss the schedule for how budget deliberations will proceed.