House Confident in Budget and Friday Adjournment

The House leadership is confident in the budget agreement and look to adjourn on schedule come Friday.

House Speaker Dean Cannon spoke to the House on Tuesday afternoon, calling it the most challenging budget year in modern Florida history and praising House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rep. Denise Grimsley, R-Sebring.

She did it with integrity, the strength and the quiet confidence of someone with nothing to prove and she is tough as nails, said Cannon. She never backed down in her fight

Tonight, sometime this evening, we will be publishing, said Grimsley, who added that conforming bills will be coming up on Wednesday and Thursday. We will go home on Friday.

Amen to that, said Cannon.

We have a GAA we can all be proud of, insisted Cannon before leading the House to consider other matters.