September 3, 2009
Nashua Telegraph
CONCORD – Republican legislative leaders called upon Gov. John Lynch to convene a special session to cut spending in a state budget embroiled in a $110 million court dispute and faced with lagging revenues over the past two months.
Senate Republican Leader Peter Bragdon, of Milford, and House Republican Leader Sherman Packard, of Londonderry, asked Lynch to release state agency head work papers from last fall that assumed a 3 percent cut in state spending over the next two years.
“We need to come back; we need to make the cuts which we are asking for,” Packard told reporters.
“We are asking for the governor to step up, call us back into special session so we can make the cuts necessary to make.”