From a brief break to attend a wedding at a drive-through chapel in Las Vegas. Here’s what we missed over the past four days:

• The budget went from worse to worser.

• Martin at Beyond the Trestle lambasted Rep. Paul Broun for voting against a resolution expressing support for school lunches that passed 401-13. Martin gets points off for not asking for a response from Boss Shumba, but his spokeswoman, Debbee Keller, told me: “Since Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution does not give the federal government authority to implement or participate in education, it does not pass Dr. Broun’s 4-way test. Therefore he votes against any federal involvement in education. Dr. Broun is committed to restoring states their rightful control of the education system.”

• Broun attended a ceremony in Columbia County for a $13.5 million porkulus grant to lay 220 miles of broadband Internet lines. Says the Columbia County News-Times, “Even though the state's congressional Republicans rightly fought against the ‘stimulus’ spending, individual GOP lawmakers have been all too happy to come back home since then and crow about getting their districts a share of the pork.”

• Gov. Sonny Perdue is likely to call for a May special election to replace resigning Rep. Nathan Deal. The date is significant because a May special election would be less confusing for voters than one concurrent with the July primary, but a July special election would drive up the primary turnout for Deal’s gubernatorial campaign.

• This is a great issue to campaign on: Sen. Johnny Isakson introduced a bill Monday to block the automatic pay raise for congressmen. “Our economy is still recovering from one of the worst recessions in our nation’s history,” Isakson said in a news release. “American families aren’t spending far and away above their means, but Congress continues to spend money at an alarming and unsustainable rate. I can’t think of anyone less deserving of a pay raise in this economy.”

• House Minority Leader DuBose Porter and his wife, Carol, appeared on Fox News Sunday. The Porters are running for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, and the husband-and-wife ticket is sure to draw what political operatives call “earned media” for the cash-strapped candidates.

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