No Foolin'

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - April Fools' Day will be serious
business in Alabama.
April 1st will mark the end of the first half of the state's
fiscal year. State budget committee chairmen have delayed working
on the two state budgets until they get the latest numbers on tax
collections through the first half of fiscal 2008.
April 1 is also the start of the second half of the
Legislature's 2008 regular session.
Through the first half, only one major bill made it through the
House and Senate. That was legislation to restrict the hiding of
campaign contributions through the transfer of money between
political action committees.
But the House and Senate passed different versions of the
PAC-to-PAC bill and haven't been able to agree on a compromise.
Most of the delay in considering bills has been in the Senate,
where senators from both parties have held up action on different
days to air assorted grievances.