5:30 pm Update

We have now been in session for seven and a half hours and have only passed one budget.

With 30.5 hours left to a shut down few seem worried, but I am.

Only a few budgets still need to pass conference committees, but that doesn't mean they will have the votes on the floor.

Nobody knows for sure, but there is a fear that some form of tax increase will be in front of us. Several are floating out there, but I have learned that means nothing. A tax vote could come out of nowhere or may never come up at all.

As the evening goes on I will keep you up to date on any action or lack of that we may take.

Pete