“The
Fiscal Year 2015 budget proposal released today by the Senate Committee on Ways
and Means invests in important priorities such as special education, substance
abuse, child welfare, and public safety. In addition the committee has
made laudable strides in the proposal to reduce its dependence on the
stabilization fund and increasing taxes.
Today’s
action by the committee is an important starting point, and in the days ahead
we must work vigorously to secure initiatives to grow jobs, reform state
government, and find savings and efficiencies to complete the effort.
Our
caucus will be offering many ways to do so, and we look forward to working with
our colleagues to build a post-recession Massachusetts that has efficiency and
fiscal discipline in state government, and an economic climate that promotes
prosperity for years to come.”
