According to Yahoo! Finance, Nevada is behind only California, Arizona, and Florida in terms of total state budget shortfall.
Nevada’s budget gap is 16% of the total state budget or $1.2 billion.
Nevada has the worst foreclosure rate in the nation, and falling tourism and gambling revenues has slowed the economy dramatically.
A special legislative session in June resulted in budget caps and cuts, but it’s quite likely another special session will have to be called – after the elections in November.
Tags: 2008, Budget, Economy, foreclosure, gambling, gap, legislative, Nevada, ranking, rate, revenue, shortfall, Special Session, tourism
Some House Republicans are still carrying on their protest on the floor of the House. The White House says they will not answer the call for a Special Session because the majority leadership still sets the agenda and no one can force them to do an up-down vote on energy/offshore drilling.
Call, email or write to your House Democrat(s) now and demand that they return to D.C. and put offshore drilling (and other sound energy policy) to a vote.
Tags: agenda, Bush, Congress, energy, House, leaderhip, Special Session, up-down, vote, W, White House
Here’s some video footage from the press conference that followed the Republicans’ attempt to reconvene the House on Friday. At one point it was stated that the Republicans are not going home until the Dems agree to re-adjourn and vote on energy – or until W. orders a Special Session. I hope they stick with it. Nobody in Congress has any business taking a vacation until the People’s business is done.
Tags: energy, House, press conference, reconvene, Republicans, Special Session, video, vote
