Patrick Adds More $

From the State House News Service:

The $267.6 million supplemental spending plan includes $25.5 million for welfare caseload growth, $17.6 million for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, and $13.1 million for unanticipated snow and ice removal.

The package adds to current fiscal year spending, and was filed within hours of the House Ways and Means Committee release of what Speaker Salvatore DiMasi has described as a "conservative" budget with few expansions, a claim blasted by Republican Party officials who ripped the "Patrick-DiMasi" plans as irresponsibly taxing and spending.