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The General Assembly is supposed to vote on energy assistance legislation today. However, after coming in this morning, it appears that the plan has hit some road bumps in the negotiation process, and the difficulty is lasting into the evening as legislators and staff await the session to convene.
As Brian Lockhart reports at the Stamford Advocate:
House and Senate members were still meeting privately Friday evening over proposed bills to divvy up the $75 million surplus to help low- and middle-class residents, seniors, schools and non profits pay their energy bills this winter.
House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero, R-Norwalk, outlined the situation during a visit to the capitol press room.
Cafero handed out a convoluted diagram, hand drawn by his staff, which he said outlined the various ways that lawmakers, the governor’s office and her budget staff would be able to review and approve, reject or modify how the funds are distributed before the checks go out.
The diagram, intended by Cafero to illustrate what he considered the absurdity of the situation, was a cross between a map of football plays and a Wile E. Coyote plan to capture the road runner.
“The quickest way possible this could happen is somebody might get some help in late March,” Cafero said, accusing Democrats of trying too hard to control the flow of cash to ensure their individual constituents get some money.
Filed under: Fuel Costs, Special Session
