The good and the better
The legislative report: The House passed Keven Anderson's $75-per-dependent tax credit as an expression of preference and support for Speaker Petrus. But that's all it was. Petrus and Beebe are close to separate agreement as outlined previously: Giving the governor his halving of the grocery tax and giving Petrus, and poor folks, a raised floor for application of the personal income tax as well as a larger manufacturer's sales tax reduction on utilities than Beebe has proposed. The holdup is for Beebe to figure out where to take a few million from his budget.
Meantime, Denny Altes' bill to report your drug prescriptions to the state Health Department set off a vigorous debate in the Senate this afternoon, and Altes pulled it down. It was sent back to the Senate Public Health Committee.