(Radio Iowa) – A small group of legislators will return to the statehouse today (Wednesday) and begin negotiations among Republicans on the spending plan for the state fiscal year that starts July 1st. Republican Governor Kim Reynolds says there’s no real impasse on the state budget and differences will be resolved quickly.

“We’re not going to shut the state down. We’re not Washington, D.C. and we’re never going to be,” Reynolds told reporters. “We know how to sit down and have a conversation and move things forward.” House Republicans have drafted and passed budget bills for all state agencies and operations. Senate Republicans have not, passing only the D-O-T budget out of the Senate Appropriations Committee on April 13th.

Senate G-O-P leaders say their overall spending target of about eight-point-two BILLION dollars matches the governor’s proposed budget plan. House Republicans are proposing spending about 70 million dollars more than that.