(WHTM) — The State Senate returned to Harrisburg for the first time this fiscal year.

With no expectations of a state budget that's more than six weeks late, the negotiations continue. abc27's Dennis Owens sat down with Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward to get her take on cash-strapped SEPTA, the unfinished budget, and complaints that the Senate's been a no-show all summer.

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"I don't think in the end that we come up with a budget today," said Sen. Ward (R-39). "We send in the House and they go, 'Yay, yay, we're going to take it.'"

House Democrats passed a mass transit bailout bill and sounded the alarm if the Senate didn't join them. Ward has heard the House's SEPTA fears, including kids not getting to school, but sh

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