Introduction

State Senator Liz Kruger is a Manhattan Democrat who chairs the Senate's Finance Committee. She presided over weeks of hearings on Governor Kathy Hochl's $227 billion executive budget and then helped lead the crafting of the Senate's one house budget resolution, which was passed this past March 16th. Just before that vote by the Senate, Senator Kruger spent a good chunk of Thursday debating Republicans on the Senate's budget resolution,. I watched a lot of that floor debate and it was very fascinating. We're going to get into some of the topics that came up here as well as how it differs from governor's proposals.