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These government assets? what is that doing in this bill that's supposed to be about clean budget practices? >> it's pretty easy. the governor thinks there may be a market out there for some of these old, antiquated power plants that need a lot of work to bring them up to epa standards, and the idea was they would try to put these on the market, see if there's any buyers, they're not sure there is. actually, the legislature is comfortable with this provision because we did put our stamp on it in the budget writing committee, joint finance committee by saying it has to come before the legislatu...

In here for businesses to buy these government assets? what is that doing in this bill that is supposed to be about clean budget practices? >> it's pretty easy. the governor thinks there may be a market out there for some of these old and antiquated hour plant who is need work to bring them up to standard. the idea was they would try to put it on the market to see if there buyers. they are not sure there is. absent the legislature, they are comfortable because we did put our stamp on it in the budget writing committee by saying that it has to come before the legislature before any of these pur...

What is that doing in this bill that's supposed to be about clean budget practices? >> it's pretty easy. the governor thinks there may be a market out there for some of these old, antiquated power plants that need a lot of work to bring them up to epa standards, and the idea was they would try to put these on the market, see if there's any buyers, they're not sure there is. actually, the legislature is comfortable with this provision because we did put our stamp on it in the budget writing committee, joint finance committee by saying it has to come before the legislature before any of these pu...