From the Washington Post:

  Lawmakers in Virginia’s Senate and House of Delegates offered competing plans Sunday for amending the state’s budget, setting the stage for a series of partisan clashes over spending during the final three weeks of the legislative session.

The General Assembly’s budget committees approved the revised spending plans without knowing how much larger the $2.9 billion shortfall will be or how much the state will receive from the federal government’s economic stimulus package.

“We have done our best with the information that we have in hand, but we know the budget . . . is a work in progress,” said Sen. Charles J. Colgan (D-Prince William), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. “We will have to make additional reductions to our revenues and make further spending cuts.”

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