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As we first reported earlier this week, the New Jersey Senate will not be taking its traditional summer-long vacation this year.

In a memo sent to budget committee members in the State senate and General assembly yesterday, David Rosen, the legislative budget and finance officer with the non-partisan Office of Legislative (OLS) services writes, "Assuming that the transfers and accruals follow the pattern of recent years and assuming the remaining cash collections match recent months, FY 2012 revenue collections are lik

Speaking yesterday at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told a welcoming audience that politics crushed a tax cut deal he had reached with Democratic leaders in the legislature.

This morning Governor Chris Christie was the featured speaker at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. The themes were jobs, the economy, bi-partisanship and taxes. Christie told the national audience what he’s been telling Jerseyans since he signed the budget; he’s not thrilled that it doesn’t include a guaranteed tax cut and he’s ready to battle Democrats all summer long.

Governor Christie is making plans to tour the Garden State this summer- to demand that Jersey Democrats explain why they're holding his tax cut plan hostage.

Last Friday, Governor Chris Christie signed the State Budget into law, but not before line-item vetoing $361 million in Democratic spending add-ons.

Typically, Trenton becomes a ghost town after a Governor signs the State Budget into law. Legislators scramble back to their districts to begin their summer-long vacations.

New Jersey's state budget is signed, but the spin about it is continuing.

Yesterday, in a special joint session of the legislature, Governor Chris Christie implored the democrat-controlled legislature to give the "certainty" of a tax cut today.

Top Democrats in the New Jersey state Legislature say they do not intend to consider Gov. Christie's latest tax cut plan.