State of Texas: Budget battle just beginning

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Early Friday morning, the Texas House approved a budget plan for the next two years.  But the budget battle is just beginning.  Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau Chief Mike Ward covered the nearly 16 hour debate that led to the final vote.  “Now the real work starts,” Ward said.
The budget now goes to conference, where five members from the House and five from the Senate go through the budget line-by-line to resolve differences.  At the end, th