Arizona House GOP Gambles on Solo Budget as Deadline and Party Tensions Rise

Arizona House Advances Conservative Budget With Final Vote Expected Friday

After weeks of negotiations between various factions in the Arizona State House, Speaker Steve Montenegro announced that “the House Republican budget proposal has passed the Appropriations Committee and is set for consideration of the full House tomorrow.” In a statement sent to the media, Montenegro said that the budget was “…balanced, conservative, and focused on...

House, Senate remain at odds over portions of Arizona budget

PHOENIX — Arizona House Republicans are playing a game of budget chicken with their GOP counterparts in the Senate, moving Wednesday to introduce a go-alone spending plan amid a looming deadline.

House and Senate GOP battle over a budget in Arizona

The House has a far different idea of how to spend surplus, and it doesn't involve splitting the money into different pots.

Arizona Republicans divided at state Capitol as work begins on annual spending plan

"We have never had a separation of Republican chambers before," said Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills.

Arizona House Republicans go it alone on budget as deadline looms

PHOENIX -- Arizona House Republicans are playing a game of budget chicken with their GOP counterparts in the Senate, moving Wednesday to introduce a go-alone spending plan amid a looming deadline.

House Republicans draft competing budget as Senate nears deal with Hobbs

Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorArizona lawmakers are at odds again, but this time it’s the Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate who can’t agree on how to forge the state budget.  Creating the state budget — deciding how much to allocate to departments, projects and initiatives or whether to fund them at all — is the most important job that legislators do each year, and the only thing they are constitutionally req…