March 6, 2009 - 07:04 am
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Lisa Brown: Parts of budget will be revealed when House and Senate negotiators reach agreement, stay tuned

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That's what Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, D-Spokane, told reporters at noon Thursday during her weekly news conference.

That would be a departure from years past, when an entire $70 billion two-year budget has been dumped on rank-and-file lawmakers, reporters, stateholders and lobbyist, then hurriedly voted on before most of us even understood it.

"This isn't like any other year," Brown said.

If this does, indeed, come to pass, I'd have to give credit to Democratic sympathizers who have been complaining about "shadow boxing" with rumored cuts. And I have to give Brown credit for taking some risks. Majority Democrats' job of writing a budget in the face of an $8 billion deficit (25 percent of state revenues) is going to be that much more difficult if stakeholders get early warning on how deep cuts will be for their particular programs.

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