David Rosen, left, New Jersey legislative budget and financial officer, hands a fiscal note analysis to Sen. Teresa Ruiz, D-Newark, N.J., presented by sponsors of bill S-2063, which is an effort to merge the state's higher education institutions, during the senate budget and appropriators committee meeting in Trenton, N.J., Monday, June 18, 2012. Sen. Donald Norcross, D-Camden, N.J., and Sen. Joseph F. Vitale, D-Woodbridge, N.J., teamed up to sponsor the bill in efforts to reconfigure Rutgers, Rowan and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)