Connecticut’s new state budget has a couple of telling details. The first is the destruction of the state constitutional limit on the growth of state government spending.
As the old budget year ended, state government already had nearly reached the spending limit and, according to the state Constitution, could not exceed the limit in the new budget without a declaration of emergency by Gov. M. Jodi Rell. Since Rell is a Republican and Democrats hold two-thirds of the seats in both houses of the General Assembly – a “super-majority” that could override gubernatorial vetoes if the Democrats are united – the governor’s discretion with a declaration of emergency was her own “super-veto” over the budget.
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