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Governor Charlie Crist promised to make his mind up about a special session to ban offshore oil drilling last week.

But there’s been a hang up in the House. House Speaker Larry Cretul accused the governor of playing politics with his position for even considering a special session on oil drilling. The Senate is onboard, but Crist is waiting until there’s an agreement with the House before he calls lawmakers back to Tallahassee. Representative Alan Williams says the legislature needs to act quickly before election season kicks into high gear.

“We can obviously take a few weeks to look at this before everyone gets involved and engulfed in this election season and running for their reelection or other offices. We can focus on this now. That’s why we were sent here. We were sent her to make the tough decisions. We were sent here to focus on issue that are critical to our economy and right now we see what is going on with our economy,” said Williams

Crist was originally looking to call a special session for next week, but lawmakers threw him a curve ball; the budget. Crist has until next Friday to veto items in the budget he doesn’t like. If he had called a special session for next week, lawmakers would have had an opportunity to override those vetoes.