LISTEN- RI Leaders React to General Assembly Budget

LISTEN- RI Leaders React to General Assembly Budget

The late night battle over the 2014 Rhode Island State budget took a number of unexpected turns. One big vote pointed to a lack of control by the House Leadership and created an out of balance budget as of 1:40 am when the House went into recess.

"They’re going to take people out to the proverbial woodshed tomorrow and beat them, I’m sure," House Minority Brian Newberry Leader told GoLocalProv at 1:50 am. Newberry’s comments were in reference to a loss by Speaker Gordon Fox on Article 5 of the Budget.

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