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QUINCY, ILL. -- KHQA talked to Representative Jil Tracy about Governor Quinn's plan to call lawmakers back to session to address the budget problem.

Quinn wants the legislature to reauthorize billions of state dollars  for schools, new roads and bridges.

But that plan would add an additional 431 million dollars to an already over inflated budget.

Tracy say that the House sent over what they felt was a budget that had many cuts, but in the end was fiscally responsible.

But the Senate was not happy with the cuts and came up with another plan.

Tracy says, "They put the cuts on a capital budget that passed in 2009. Every year when you don't spend what you have on a capital project budget you have to re-appropriate. And so that was the mechanism they used which I felt was kind of an inappropriate way to trump our budget"

Tracy says she's glad to go back to Springfield to deal with this important issue.

But she says one thing is for sure the state can not overspend anymore and that means that once again the House will have to stand firm on the cuts it has already proposed.