Say what? NCSL staff share expertise.

• Position: POINT OF ORDER

"What we're seeing, four-and-a-half years after the end of the Great Recession, is that the recovery of state budgets remains a work in progress."

--Todd Haggerty, NCSL policy specialist, on KJZZ Radio in Phoenix

"There is a move away from enforcement measures to measures that support immigrants, such as in-state tuition and driver's licenses."

--Ann Morse, NCSL immigration policy project director, in WSJ

"Surpluses are a very tricky term."

--Arturo Perez, NCSL budget expert, in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on why some states show budget surpluses while...