Legislature Sends Romney a Budget With Unanimous Support
       The House at 3 pm voted 157-0 to approve the $23.9 billion fiscal 2006 conference committee budget bill that was filed at 3 am.  The Senate followed with a 35-0 stamp of approval. 
       With a week left in the fiscal year,  the branches sent the budget to Gov. Romney's desk at 4:10 pm.  Whether the budget is in place before the July 1 start of the fiscal year now depends on whether Romney takes the full ten days allotted for him to review the bill, sign it, and announce his amendments and vetoes. 
       Romney on Wednesday filed a $1.2 billion budget to keep the government running and its bills paid through July 17 while the budget process plays itself out. He wants the Legislature to approve the interim budget by Monday at the latest.  One thing is for sure: there's a lot less for the governor to review in this year's budget bill.         During brief floor remarks, House budget chief Robert DeLeo said the budget's 38 outside sections, compared to 422 in this year's budget, mark one of the biggest budgetary reforms on Beacon Hill in many years.  The budget is balanced only with the help of $600 million drawn from the state's stabilization fund, and DeLeo, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, said that as the House considers the fiscal 2005 surplus and starts thinking about fiscal 2007, it ought to set the goal of building rather than spending reserves, and eventually approving a self-sustaining budget that does not rely on non-recurring revenues.