(RALEIGH) -- The Speaker of the North Carolina State House said he is pleased with how his first two-year session in charge of the lower chamber went. Rep. Thom Tillis said the roughly $20 Billion budget was reasonable.

"The educators across the state, the state employees are happy with it too," said Tillis.  "We were able to live within our means but make some progress because we made conservative assumptions last year.  We had a little bit more money on the bottom line that we could spend."

He added that overriding the veto by Gov. Perdue was the right thing to do and he is please that some Democrats also saw the need to put the budget in place.

"They listened to their constituents and they realized that what we were doing here was an improvement.  It reprioritized spending.  We lived within our means."

The GOP led General Assembly also overrode vetoes on two other key pieces of legislation, one on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and another revising the state's Racial Justice Act.