{"id":1651,"date":"2011-10-28T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2011-10-28T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:18:59","slug":"budget-looks-better-but-lawmaker-warns-more-money-more-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/10\/28\/budget-looks-better-but-lawmaker-warns-more-money-more-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Looks Better, But Lawmaker Warns: More Money, More Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1656\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"caption\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/10\/brian-bingman.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1656\" title=\"brian-bingman\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/10\/brian-bingman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/10\/brian-bingman.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/10\/brian-bingman-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/10\/brian-bingman-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, R-Sapulpa.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Years of state budget cuts could be ending, the <em>Tulsa<\/em> <em>World<\/em>\u2019s Wayne Greene <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20111028_16_A1_CUTLIN755480&rss_lnk=16\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cRight now, the revenues are very good for Oklahoma,\u201d Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, R-Sapulpa, told a Tulsa Metro Chamber luncheon.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em><\/em>But being flush with cash could bring conflict to the state Capitol, Bingman cautioned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Any extra money that we do have, that makes it very difficult on the Legislature because you have winners and losers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->While revenues are good, this year&#8217;s budget was built with $600 million in one-time funding, Bingman said, according to the <em>World<\/em>. Bingman said lawmakers will have to work to fill the gap.<\/p><p>But Bingman said funding education, transportation and rebuilding the state\u2019s \u201cRainy Day\u201d fund are real possibilities, the <em>World<\/em> reported. House Speaker Kris Steele added public safety and health care as top funding priorities.<\/p><p>Bingman cited a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/kosu.org\/2011\/10\/fixing-oklahomas-roads-and-bridges\/\">plan to fix state bridges<\/a> as progress on the transportation front and outlined education-spending priorities, including a flexible benefits health care program for schoolteachers and $5,000 stipends for board-certified teachers, which are the only the state merit pay plans for teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years of state budget cuts could be ending, the Tulsa World\u2019s Wayne Greene reports. \u201cRight now, the revenues are very good for Oklahoma,\u201d Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, R-Sapulpa, told a Tulsa Metro Chamber luncheon.But being flush with cash could bring conflict to the state Capitol, Bingman cautioned. &#8220;Any extra money that we do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[151,149,855,150,19,22],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}