1.   Another friction point is the red-ink state budget, which has been running a deficit of several billion dollars.

2.   Legal immigrants -- Unresolved issue in the state budget.

3.   More often than not, state budgets and other compromises were forged in the Senate, rather than the highly partisan Assembly.

4.   Most of what happens in the state budget each year gets little notice from the public.

5.   Now that burden May shift to Republicans, some of whom have never voted for a state budget.

6.   Schools are, by far, the largest part of the state budget and often a bone of contention.

7.   The Democratic majority in the Assembly has put up most of the votes for state budgets in recent years.

8.   Gambling and tourism pay roughly half the entire state budget.

9.   Reducing the state budget is not going to be a cakewalk.

10.   Later, the company submitted provisional accounts showing forecast losses so that these could be included in the state budget.