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Andy Biggs: “The state legislature in Arizona controls a general fund…”

Featuring: Andy Biggs, Republican | U.S. House Arizona, District 5

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Published | Video Starts at 27:02

Just to have Congress actually doing a real budget every year. Yeah. Having served in the state where you actually had an appropriations process in Arizona, where similar to the feds, except for less, so The state legislature in Arizona controls a general fund portion that was 20-25% of the overall spend. in Arizona. But we didn't have a separate budget committee that gets up there and basically ostensibly is setting top levels of spending over here, you know, which are idealized quite frankly and never get done. (27:02–27:28)

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Asserts that Arizona's state legislature controls 20-25% of the overall spending through the general fund.

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