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A friend in higher education asked me about the impact of the unapproved budget on money to state colleges/universities. Quite frankly, I'm not sure. But I noticed in Q&A with Gov. Ed Rendell on Pennsylvania's budget (The Patriot-News, 8/05/09), the below quote.  Anyone else have information to share?

Question: Now that the workers will get paid, do you think there will be less pressure on all sides to get this budget done?

Rendell: No. The reason I line-item vetoed everything is to make sure there is still pressure. For example the county governments are screaming bloody murder because all of their lines are out. The universities, the PHEAA grants ... none of the PHEAA grants can go out. Students are going back to school and won't know what their full aid package is. The providers, like the pre-K accounts and the Head Starts, they're going to run out of money by the end of August, so there's still plenty of pressure to get this done.