The heads of a large company facing a $1.1 billion revenue shortfall might rely on their most experienced workers and use blueprints from past recessions to figure a way out of their financial problem.That is not, however, how House Republicans say they plan to attack the budget crisis.
House Speaker-designate Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, announced Friday that he has appointed a newly elected freshman legislator, Republican John Becker of Fort Morgan, to sit on the six-person Joint Budget Committee in charge of dealing with the $1.1 billion budget shortfall. And he said he’s been in talks with Gov.-elect John Hickenlooper about throwing out the budget proposed by outgoing Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter and starting over to find fresh new ways to approach the situation.
“House Republicans will be bold in our leadership,” McNulty said at a news conference Friday. “We understand the crisis we face ... We are going to do things a little bit differently than they have been done in the past.”
The JBC is considered the most powerful committee in the Legislature, as the half-dozen members of it are responsible for deciding where to spend $19.1 billion in state dollars. After submitting its annual proposal to the Legislature, the JBC typically sees little change in the financial plan. – More -
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