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it never came to that bill. bill: the governor is set to talk again today. now, what was the last time he addressed his people, what is the message expected to be, mike? reporter: the message this time, he s expected to talk on tuesday, and that s when he s going to give husband budget address. what everybody is really looking for with this budget address is to see if he s going to finalize these risk to send out at-risk notices for layoffs to 1200-1500 state employees. that is because there s $165 million bond restructuring that comes due without the savings for that bond restructuring that s part of this budget repair bill that can t get through the senate because the senate democrats won t come back. he says without this savings he s going to send out the layoff notifies. we re all watching for tuesday to see if it comes up then. bill: it s a sleepy morning in madison. thanks, mike, on the outside of the state capitol building. back to you when we get more developments. martha. ma