Legislators have resolved all special session budget issues but two obscure issues that a key lawmaker concedes shouldn't have been bumped up to appropriations chairmen in the first place. Both are in the domain of "TED," transportation and economic development, where the key negotiators are Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey and Rep. Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, the likely speaker-to-be in 2010.

One issue involves a previous $600,000 grant for a hurricane shelter in Hernando County that was not funded from the right account. The other involves $500,000 for printing of driver safety handbook by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

Gov. Charlie Crist last May vetoed proviso language on the handbook but not the money. That prompted a lawsuit by a group of driving schools, challenging Crist's power to veto language but not the related funding. Fasano said the Senate would not agree to a House position taking the unspent money away from the agency. So the two issues have been kicked upstairs to Sen. Lisa Carlton and Rep. Ray Sansom, who must agree before a new budget can be printed -- a development Fasano calls "embarrassing."

Lawmakers are scheduled to vote Friday on the newly-downsized $71-billion budget.