September 24, 2009

In the days since legislative leaders and Gov. Rendell announced they had struck a long-overdue state budget deal, aides have been toiling behind the scenes in the painstaking process of finalizing voluminous details.
The nuts and bolts are spread out over more than a dozen bills, from a tax code to a welfare code.

"Very little is 100 percent, locked-in-stone at this point," Erik Arneson, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R., Delaware), said yesterday. "A lot of it is going through hundreds of pages of documents line by line. A lot of staff have rulers that they slide down the pages to make sure every comma, every letter, every dollar is correct."

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