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The Council also held a much shorter and less contentious hearing on Sununu’s nomination of Public Utilities Commission Chair Martin Honigberg to be a Superior Court judge.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
Wednesday’s public hearings before the Executive Council on both nominations are expected to be well-attended.
While Democratic leaders and lawmakers believe they have met the governor more than halfway, Sununu said Tuesday the legislature is knowingly sending him a budget “that I cannot support.”
However, the state is not in a fiscal crisis and has had a revenue surplus for the last five or six years and much of that money has been used to reduce business taxes and build up the state’s rainy day fund.
A report regarding whether the use of force was justified will be released once the investigation is completed. No further updates are expected until the report is released.
The House and Senate budget writers Thursday signed off on a $13 billion two-year operating budget that eliminated most of Gov. Chris Sununu’s objections but not all.
“While most people associate the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln as the Decree that freed enslaved people, for some who were not told and remained in bondage it was actually June 19, 1865 that the chains of slavery were finally broken.”
House and Senate negotiators reached agreement Thursday to allow the Health and Human Services Commissioner to waiver any suspension for non-compliance with the work requirement passed last year in the reauthorization of the Medicaid expansion program.