BUDGET DAY PLUS 59 -- And now, the non-news.

Today's Senate budget vote was, as expected, unproductive. We were also unable to get our schedule in order today for the Capital Notes Podcast, but will be back on track next week. And I'm traveling this weekend to Minnesota for next week's Republican National Convention (my colleague Scott Shafer's coverage of the Democrats is here).

More from Minneapolis and St. Paul on Monday.