{"id":27407,"date":"2011-03-18T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=27407"},"modified":"2011-03-18T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:03:43","slug":"house-oks-pension-bill-balances-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/house-oks-pension-bill-balances-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"House OKs pension bill, balances budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25658\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25658 \" title=\"Roundhouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Roundhouse.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Roundhouse in Santa Fe (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Late Thursday the House shifted gears and voted to approve Senate changes to a bill that would require public employees to pay more for their pensions, sending Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/budget-goes-to-martinez-with-111-million-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susana Martinez<\/a> a funding bill that balances the budget.<\/p>\n<p>The bill will provide $111 million toward funding the appropriations bill lawmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/budget-goes-to-martinez-with-111-million-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\">sent the governor late Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The original vote on concurring with Senate changes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=628&amp;year=11\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 628<\/a> was 30-38, so the bill was thought to be going back to the Senate to see if that chamber would recede from its changes.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, House Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HLUJA\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Luj\u00e1n<\/a> held the bill while he and others worked to flip votes. Thursday night, the House concurred with the changes on a vote of 35-34.<\/p>\n<p>The governor had threatened earlier Thursday to veto the entire budget if lawmakers didn\u2019t balance it. She did that in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/article\/stories\/s2023252.shtml?cat=504&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=kobtv\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with KOB-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t Washington D.C., and I\u2019m not going to sign an unbalanced budget bill. Period,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House shifted gears Thursday and voted to approve Senate changes to a bill that would require public employees to pay more for their pensions, sending Gov. Susana Martinez a funding bill that balances the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[118,107],"class_list":["post-27407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}