In this video press release, Assembly Budget Committee Chair Louis D. Greenwald (D-Camden) and Assembly members Gordon M. Johnson (D-Bergen), L. Grace Spencer (D-Essex), Albert Coutinho (D-Essex), Joan M. Quigley (D-Hudson) and John J. Burzichelli (D-Gloucester) discuss testimony given to the Assembly Budget Committee Monday by state Treasurer Andrew P. Sidamon-Eristoff on Gov. Chris Christie's FY 2010 budget cuts.

The Assembly members stressed the need for legislative involvement in the process to help mitigate the deep impact of some cuts and 'ripple effect' of other cuts on middle- and working-class New Jersey families.