Heated budget battle adds up | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "An extended battle over the state budget cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of additional dollars as lawmakers and Gov. Haley Barbour pushed decisions to the final hours of the fiscal year that ended Tuesday.
And with the budgets for two agencies still unapproved, taxpayers likely will be paying again for lawmakers to return to the Capitol.
Legislative accounting officials estimate the costs totaled $406,895 after April 1 - the approximate date regular sessions usually adjourn for the year. But the off-and-on 2009 regular session ended in early June with no budget agreement, and a three-day special session was required last week to produce a budget."
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