Reaction to Doyle’s budget plan

MADISON - Lawmakers FOX 11 spoke with after the Gov. Jim Doyle's address were not surprised by his ideas to cut spending and resolve the budget.

Some say the cuts don't go deep enough, others say this is just the beginning of solving the state's budget problem.

"Everybody has got to remember that this is the beginning of the budget process and legislators on both sides of the aisle will have plenty of opportunity to propose either alternatives to cuts, different cuts, additional cuts, different types of revenue. So, I’ll be interested to look at the details. What we heard tonight was a speech. But the actual document is 1,200 pages or something,” Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, said.

"We intend to be very aggressive as we go through this document line by line to make sure everything that we can live without is in fact out and that we are doing the best work we can on behalf of our constituents with the best of what we have ," Rep. Tom Nelson, D-Kaukauna, said.

"He’s got a number of things he really wants to do. And I would love to see those things happen. The hard part of that is that the dollars aren’t coming there. ," Rep. Karl VanRoy, R-Green Bay, said.

"I applaud Gov. Doyle on balancing some cuts. The one problem I guess I would have, you know, we lost 36,000 manufacturing jobs in this state. To only put 3,600 state jobs as a possibility of being cuts is a little bit out of balance for me," Rep. Phil Montgomery, R-Ashwaubenon, said.

This is the first time since the 1980s Democrats have had control of the Assembly, Senate, and governor's office.

Members of the Assembly say they will start reviewing Doyle’s plan right away.