Senator Scott Sales

Scott Sales joined me live in studio Friday morning and we talked about a lot of things going on in Helena, he said when a budget gets passed 100-0, there is something to worry about. Don't look for the Senate to be that easy going

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Thursday Senator Scott Sales and Representative Kerry White joined me to talk about the weekly legislation update. Even though the House voted 100-0 to pass the state budget, Senator sales thinks that there is something hidden, or misleading about the budget numbers, and is looking for further information before the Senate vote

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There are some bills moving through the committees right now and the 2 Senators are here to tell us whats going on. I also asked them if they thought they got enough input from constituents. Also a talk on a citizens committee during the rest of the 2 year term

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At this point in the Legislature for this year, there is no way we can out law drones over Montana altogether. It is going to have to be done by citizens initiative.

We also opened up the phone lines to Senator Sales and he fielded some great questions

Well that question got answered Thursday morning, maybe it is just wishful thinking. Senator Scott Sales and I were joined this week by Senate Minority Leader Jon Sesso (D) Butte and House Minority Leader Chuck Hunter (D) Helena

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House Appropriations and the Senate Finance and Claims committees got a rundown of what Governor Bullocks' new budget looks like.This is what Governor Bullock expects:

In order to accomplish this, the Governor-Elect requests in the strongest possible terms that the Legislature follows his lead and use the following principles as it constructs a budget for his consideration:
1. The General Fund should have a minimum $300 million ending fund balance on June 30, 2015.
2. Th

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Senator Sales will join me every Thursday morning from 8:15-9, through the entire 2013 legislative session to keep us informed about what is going on in Helena.

Scott talked about his plans for this session and his plans for the weekly visit

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