From KnoxvilleNews.com:

"I believe it is a commonsense family budget in a very difficult time, and I hope you will consider and enact it promptly," Bredesen told a joint session of the House and Senate.

The state's financial position, the governor said, is basically "a very strong one" given economic downturns and conservative fiscal management in the past years.

While potentially abolishing as many as 1,819 state government job positions, perhaps as few as 350 workers could actually be laid off under the Bredesen plan next year, if accepted by the Legislature.  Read more.