AUGUSTA -- Maine's next House speaker says everything's on the table as the Legislature prepares to deal with a budget shortfall of up to $150 million for the fiscal year that ends June 30. But Rep. Hannah Pingree also says she's not looking at new taxes as a way to address the shortfall.

Interviewed today on WCSH-TV, Pingree said Gov. John Baldacci made some reasonable choices in the $80 million curtailment order he issued Wednesday.

The Legislature must tackle the remainder of the shortfall when it takes up a budget revision package in December.

The hardest-hit departments in Baldacci's curtailment are Education and Health and Human Services, but they're also the departments with the biggest budgets.

The Legislature's Appropriations Committee on Thursday questioned the heads of those departments about the cuts.