Public transparency? It goes right out the window in this process.
In Arizona, for instance, the public can speak on the budget at joint House and Senate appropriations hearings. A joint committee in Wisconsin travels the state holding town hall meetings for citizen input on state spending. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, serving his first term in that position, said,"I do not like conference weekend." Hosemann said he had planned this year to move up budget negotiations and not have a big scramble at the end.
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