After SPIN! Video: Why weren't budget spending levels set earlier this spring?

Published September 23, 2015

After SPIN! "Question to John Hood – On a recent show you were highly critical of the process lawmakers have gone about resolving the state budget, saying that they should have agreed to target spending levels early this spring and that might have prevented a lot of the haggling. Why wasn’t this done this year? Has that been the case in years past? Do you have any sense that legislative leadership might want to change this budget process in years to come?"