Posted on September 21, 2017
Posted on September 19, 2017
Opinion by Rep. Jason Perillo
In the early morning hours of Saturday, September 16th, history was made. For the first time in over forty years, the Connecticut General Assembly passed a no-tax-increase budget that was developed by legislative Republicans, and sent it to the desk of Governor Dannel P. Malloy for his signature.
What started as a Republican budget became a bipartisan budget as three Democratic State Senators, and then five Democratic Representatives, joined with all Republicans in voting in favor of this budget. It had been 141 days since House and Senate Republicans put forward the first version of this budget, only to have Democratic leaders who hold a razor-thin majority refuse to call it.
These Democratic leaders in the legislature preferred failing to deliver any budget until 70 days after the start of the fiscal year, allowing the governor to run the state through ruinous executive orders, including a looming order that goes into effect on October 1st that takes away all of Shelton’s $5.8 million in Education Cost Share funding for our local schools.…
Posted on September 16, 2017
Republican budget finally called in House – Passes with bipartisan vote
State Representative Jason Perillo (R-113) was in Hartford for a second day in a row, resulting in an early Saturday morning vote on a biennial budget for the State of Connecticut. Thursday evening the House failed to go in to take up a Democratic budget that had been negotiated with Governor Malloy. Earlier Friday, the State Senate passed the House and Senate Republican budget with a surprise bipartisan vote including three Democrats.
The Republican budget moved to the State House of Representatives where five Democrats joined all 72 Republicans to pass the GOP No-Tax-Increase budget 77-73.
“The first step to turning this state around and reversing our economic downfall is ending the cycle of confiscatory tax hikes and spending increases,” said Rep. Perillo. “With the passage of this no-tax-increase budget tonight, we have taken that first step. It isn’t without sacrifice – but that is because it reflects the difficult choices we know are needed to get this state moving in the right direction. I thank the Democrats in the Senate and the House who joined with us to make this budget a bipartisan reality.”…
