The public got the first inklings of Gov. Mark R. Warner’s budget proposals for the next biennium when disagreements with the House of Delegates erupted in the form of a press release from Speaker William J. Howell and House Appropriations Chairman Vincent F. Callahan.
In the statement, released late Tuesday afternoon, Howell and Callahan blasted the Warner administration for “eliminating $290 million in dedicated transportation funding and eliminating another $100 million for water quality improvements” in the 2006-08 state budget that the Governor is preparing.
The Governor has not at this time issued a release of his own, and I’m in no position to evaluate what’s going on here. But House leaders are clearly upset by proposals to sweep away their signature contributions to the current (fiscal 2006) budget. Read the press release.
