Budget Heads To Senate

Two quite different viewpoints have emerged among members of the Missouri House on how they handled their first budget decision. House Budget Chairman Tim Green has sent a budget bill without a 127 million dollar transfer from the national tobacco settlement to the Senate. That money would have covered an expected shortfall. Green says the House has sent the Senate a deficit bill, but House Republican Leader Catherine Hanaway calls it a projected deficit. She says this is not a budget crisis, adding Republicans are willing to stand with Democrats and Governor Holden to deal with the expected shortfall.