The Mike Bertelsen Project

Thank goodness there are scorekeepers! The House yesterday had there work cut out for them.
The main pattern: this blog entry title. Reduction overrides require a simple majority, line-item overrides require a three-fifths majority. Here's a run-down:

• House failed to override the line-item veto of millions of dollars of drug treatment programs
• House did restore $43 million in drug treatment program reductions
• House failed to override the line-item veto of school construction grants
• Higher education money worth tens of millions of dollars failed (MAP grant increases included)
  
• House failed to allow the Governor from moving $185 million of Medicaid payments for prescription drugs, transportation, home health, medical appliances, hospice care and labs to FY2010 (starts July 1, 2009)
  

Speaker Madigan adjourned the session with no intention of calling the House back until November, unless needed. Roll call vote.