Nothing to Report. The conference committee has not been meeting this week. Representative Greiling has the gavel--in other words, she will call the next meeting--and will call a meeting once a budget target for the conference committee has been set. Working groups on several broad non-funding related issues are meeting periodically and I will provide you with pertinent details of those meetings.

Keep tuned in. The longer the conference committee is not meeting, the more that will need to get done in a increasingly brief (is that an oxymoron?) period of time. In other words, this is the calm before the storm.