DES MOINES — House and Senate negotiators said Tuesday they were optimistic this 20th week of the 2015 legislative session would net a budget deal that will hasten the end of their overtime work.“We’re hopeful that we’ll get together today and things will start to break,” Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, told reporters after a skeleton crew of senators convened for four minutes Tuesday — the session’s 135th day — to send a budget piece to conference committee and gavel out until Wednesday.Gronstal said the full contingent of legislators will be summoned back to the Statehouse once negotiators settle on an overall spending number for the fiscal 2016 state general fund budget and resolve their differences on funding levels for supplemental state aid for K-12 schools and Medicaid spending — two of the biggest spending pieces.“I think we’ve made progress.

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