...The most watched conference committee is the one dealing with the budget. The chairmen of the House and Senate appropriations committees both say there are few disagreements, largely because there isn't much money to fight over.Other major...

...19 billion budget.Traditionally, legislators take the week following Opening Day for the House and Senate appropriations committees to meet jointly to hear from the heads of the largest agencies about needs for the coming fiscal year...

...elaborate an agenda this as we have had in previous years," Deal told a joint meeting of the House and Senate appropriation committees.Lawmakers, who can change or reject Deal's budget plans, started their own reviews Tuesday of departments...

...don't come after our weakest faculty. They come after our very best," he told members of the House and Senate appropriations committees after a presentation on the system's budget for the next fiscal year.Gov. Nathan Deal is recommending...

...in county jails across Georgia, 10,000 of them are vacant, he told a joint meeting of the House and Senate appropriations committees."I've never seen before a situation where over 10,000 county jail beds are empty," he said...

...Development Commissioner Chris Cummiskey told lawmakers Wednesday.But the same joint meeting of the House and Senate appropriations committees also heard of positive developments on the jobs front.Cummiskey reported that the Department of Economic...

...to organize their committees and settle into new offices.The 10-day break was to allow the House and Senate appropriations committees to spend three days in joint hearings taking testimony from agency heads about their financial requests...

...port infrastructure to compete with the Middle East and China," said Graham, a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. "We either get our act together or we lose market share."The corps report that was requested by Congress...

...Jack Hill, a Reidsville Republican who chairs one of the commission subcommittees.Hill also chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and is aware that weak tax collections this year has left the state with little opportunity for so-called...

...still ahead, revising the formula in state law for how schools are funded. The chairman of the House and Senate appropriations committees have that assignment and are expected to begin public meetings later this summer.They'll make the year-end...