ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Oklahoma State Senate - News</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="author" content="oklahoma state senate staff"> <meta name="description" content="Oklahoma State Senate - Press Release"> <meta name="keywords" content="oklahoma, state, senate, press, release"> </head> <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <table width="87%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="this table contains the main navigation menu"> <tr> <td colspan="+2"><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/barnews.lbi" --> &nbsp;<map name="m_barnews"><area shape="rect" coords="0,0,26,19" href="../../../index.htm" alt="Link to main page" ><area shape="rect" coords="26,0,119,20" href="../../../senators.htm" alt="Link to Senators" ><area shape="rect" coords="124,0,217,20" href="../../../legislation.htm" alt="Link to Legislation" ><area shape="rect" coords="216,0,309,20" href="../../../schedule.htm" alt="Link to Schedule" ><area shape="rect" coords="310,0,403,20" href="../../../committees.htm" alt="Link to Committees" ><area shape="rect" coords="403,0,496,20" href="../../../publications.htm" alt="Link to Publications" ><area shape="rect" coords="498,2,591,20" href="../../../news.htm" alt="Link to News" ><area shape="rect" coords="593,0,689,20" href="../../../staff.htm" alt="Link to Staff" ></map><!-- #EndLibraryItem --></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="100%"> <table width="100%" height="227%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="this table contains the news navigation menu"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="100%"></td> </tr> </table> <br> </td> <td width="100%"><table width="82%" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="this table contains the main content of the page"> <tr> <TD width="75%"> <p align="center"><FONT SIZE="+3" FACE="Arial" align="center"><strong>Oklahoma State Senate <br> </strong></font><FONT align="center">Communications Division<br> State Capitol<br> Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105</font><FONT SIZE="+3" FACE="Arial" align="center"></font></p> <div align="center"> <table width="14%" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td width="48%" bordercolor="0"><div align="center"><font face="Arial"><a href="pr20100420gpv.html"><img src="../../printnews.gif" alt="Printer-friendly version" width="25" height="25" border="0"></a></font></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="0"><div align="center"><a href="pr20100521apv.html">Print</a></div></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align="center">For Immediate Release: May 21, 2010<br> <br> <img src="../senator_photos/brogdon_bio.jpg" alt="Sen. Randy Brogdon" width="133" height="200"> <br> Sen. Randy Brogdon</p> <p align="center"><strong>Brogdon: Oklahoma has a Spending Problem </strong></p> <p align="left">Sen. <a href="../../../Senators/Senators/biographies/brogdon_bio.html">Randy Brogdon</a>s says Oklahoma has a spending problem. In five of the last ten years Oklahoma has failed meet proposed spending levels.  If you can t pay your bills half of the time, you are spending too much money, said Brogdon, R-Owasso.</p> <p align="left">The Senate passed a budget on Friday that spent $1 Billion more than was collected in revenue. Brogdon voted against the General Appropriations stating,  Passing a budget and leaving a $1 Billion hole is irresponsible. He went to say that  Governor Henry is responsible for the budget deficit due to his over spending and raiding the emergency rainy day fund. </p> <p align="left">A spending limitation law is the answer according to the Senator.  Allowing Government to grow three or four times faster than the economy is unsustainable as we have found out over and over again, Brogdon said.</p> <p align="left"> A good budget is a balanced budget and one based on priorities not wishful thinking Brogdon said.  We should never spend more money than is collected in revenue. </p> <p align="left"><strong>For more information, contact: </strong><br> Sen. Brogdon: (405) 521-5566</p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><img src="../bandblue.gif" alt="Inon: Horizontal Blue Band" width="640" height="6"></p> <table border=0 align="center" summary="this table contains return links"> <tr> <td width="249"> <center> <font size="-1" face="MS Sans Serif"><a href="pr201005.html">May Press Releases </a>| </font><font face="MS Sans Serif"><a href="../../press_releases.html"><font size="-1">Press Releases</font></a></font><font size="-1"> </font> </center></td> </tr> </table></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td height="100%">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>