From FortWayne.com:

Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman came to Fort Wayne to press a last-minute case for the Indiana General Assembly to pass a budget that Gov. Mitch Daniels can sign.

The special session of the legislature called by Daniels is scheduled to end Tuesday. The Republican-controlled state Senate has passed a budget that Skillman said the governor could sign. However, the Senate and the state House of Representatives, controlled by Democrats, are still far apart in many important respects.

One of the fundamental differences is that the House is pressing for a one-year budget instead of the two-year budget normally used in Indiana state government.

Skillman, a former state legislator, said settling for a one-year budget would impose a new burden on next year’s “short” session of the General Assembly.

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