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House reintroduces budget resolution
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Posted on Oct 09 2004
The House of Representatives reintroduced and adopted Friday a new concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 2005 budget providing for the same appropriation level of $212.651 million.
The reintroduction was made after the Senate on Wednesday rejected the House’ previously adopted concurrent resolution.
House Concurrent Resolution 14-1 was defeated in the Senate 7-1 on Wednesday, with only Sen. Thomas Villagomez voting yes.
Minority leader Sen. Pete Reyes, who was absent during the session, said Thursday that the resolution should have been accepted to allow the Senate to pass or amend the budget.
The House leadership has since talked with the Senate majority and agreed to do the budget resolution one more time.
The Senate leadership has assured the House that it would accept the resolution when it is referred to the upper chamber, according to House leadership spokesman Charles Reyes Jr.
Meantime, the House Concurrent Resolution, identified now as HCR 14-2, lowers to 1 percent the amount allotted for deficit reduction, which used to be 2 percent of the total appropriation.
HCR 14-2 makes available $212.651 million for FY 2005: $210,525,392 for operation and activities of the CNMI government and $2,126,519 for the deficit reduction.
The Babauta administration submitted last April a $226 million budget proposal for 2005.
