Two House committees to meet
House Resources Chairman Bert Stevenson just announced that the Resources Committee will meet when the House recesses, and Ways & Means Chairman Rich Wills announced that Ways & Means also will meet when the House recesses. The announcements came just after the 45-24 vote on HB 324, the teachers division of the public school budget. "Yes we're in bad economic times, yes we're in bad unemployment, no, we do not see the end," Rep. Cliff Bayer, R-Boise, said in his closing debate before the bill passed. House passage sends the school budget bills to the Senate. Meanwhile, the Senate convened and recessed, and members headed to caucus.
