MADISON - Lawmakers gave final approval to a state budget deal early Friday evening, ending a messy process marked by days of secret meetings and all-night debates.

The budget now goes to Gov. Jim Doyle, who can use his expansive partial veto power to rewrite large portions of the $62 billion two-year spending plan to his liking.

The governor has been pressuring fellow Democrats who control the Legislature to pass a budget in time for him to make his vetoes and sign it into law before Wednesday, when the new fiscal year starts.

It's unclear how Doyle feels about the version that emerged from the Legislature. Lawmakers stripped out the governor's plan to tax oil company profits and increased capital gains taxes more than he wanted. Doyle spokesman Lee Sensenbrenner said the governor had no immediate comment.

The budget closes a record $6.6 billion shortfall, brought on because state agencies' spending requests outpace projected revenue. The sheer size of the deficit added to the traditional partisan bickering during the budget process and Democrats repeatedly met secretly to hash out details among themselves, spending days behind closed doors and often emerging late at night to take public votes.

The Democratic-controlled Assembly passed the budget 51-46, with independent Jeff Wood siding with Democrats. Reps. Don Friske, R-Merrill, and Pat Strachota, R-West Bend, were absent and didn't vote. The vote came less than 24 hours after the Senate passed it early Friday morning, 17-15.

Republicans bashed Democrats for how they handled the process, and not every Democratic lawmaker voted for the deal. Reps. Bob Ziegelbauer, D-Manitowoc, and Peggy Krusick, D-Milwaukee in the Assembly sided with Republicans and voted against the budget. So did state Sen. Jim Sullivan, D-Wauwatosa.

"You've spent so much time behind closed doors with each other you actually believe this budget is good for Wisconsin," state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Racine, told Democrats before the vote.

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, is a co-chairman of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee, which revised much of the budget. He shot back that Republicans have little to complain about.

"When you can't argue about the product, you argue about the process," Pocan said.

Republicans said they opposed the budget primarily because it taxes and spends too much. But one big tax was left out.

The governor's oil tax provision, first introduced in 2007, came with a prohibition on companies from passing the cost along to drivers. The Assembly had approved the tax but allowed the cost of gas to increase 4.4 cents a gallon.

Under the rest of deal, a new driver's card for illegal immigrants would not be created as the Assembly had wanted, but children of illegal immigrants could pay in-state tuition to attend Wisconsin colleges.

The budget also would mandate that Wisconsin drivers have liability insurance beginning in a year. New Hampshire is the only state other than Wisconsin that doesn't already have the mandate.

Doyle supports the mandate as well as in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants.

Sen. John Lehman, D-Racine, has pushed for the auto insurance mandate since 2001, but it's been blocked by the insurance industry. Lehman said drivers, particularly those who have been hit by uninsured motorists, want it.

Andy Franken, director of the Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, said the mandate, along with new requirements in the budget that increase the required minimum levels of insurance, actually will result in fewer people being covered.

About 15 percent of Wisconsin drivers do not have insurance, according to the Insurance Research Council.

The budget deal cuts most state agency spending by 6 percent. It will result in all state employees being furloughed for 16 days over the next two years, force about 1,400 to be laid off and rescind 2 percent pay increases.

Overall state spending, including about $3 billion in federal stimulus money, would increase about 6.8 percent, the Fiscal Bureau said.