NASHVILLE - The Tennessee House today passed the state's $37 billion spending plan today after patching up Thursday's blow up in which GOP leaders lost control.
The vote was 83-2.
The bill now goes to the Senate which under an agreement, House leaders say, will accept an amendment that sifts $55 million in one-time money from the state Transportation Department and gives it to counties.
On Thursday, a coalition of hard-right Republicans and minority Democrats "hijacked" the budget, in the words of one leader, and amended it to the point it was unbalanced
Those amendments were stripped from the bill.