Countdown to shutdown

Can't get the budget out of the presumed special session on time if you can't get the special session to start.  Barras is already dragging his feet. 

House Speaker Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, wouldn't commit to ending the Louisiana Legislature's regular session early so lawmakers can move into a special session in which they might try to renew or pass new taxes and deal with some of Louisiana's projected budget shortfall that would cut health care services all over the state.

Imagine that.