AUGUSTA — Lawmakers on the Legislature’s budget committee ended deliberations Tuesday without reaching final votes on the biennial state budget.

Dozens of 9-4 votes, which have become common in the process and which could stop passage of the budget when it reaches the Legislature, continued with all four House Republicans in the minority against two Senate Republicans and all of the Democrats.

Republican Rep. Jeff Timberlake of Turner, one of the gang of four dissenters, had the last word as the committee recessed.

“We will be ready with a minority report,” he said. “It’s ready to be out any time. I don’t think we’ll need any extra time when you get the document finished. Ours is all ready.”

A biennial budget going to the Legislature with a minority report — which means the Appropriations Committee’s final vote was not unanimous — means there will be two budgets for lawmakers to choose from, not just an up-or-down vote on one. Timberlake and the other House Republicans — Reps. Tom Winsor of Norway, Robert Nutting of Oakland and Heather Sirocki of Scarborough — favor a spending plan that’s much closer to Gov. Paul LePage’s original proposal than what is developing at the hands of the committee.

Gone from LePage’s proposal are the elimination of municipal revenue sharing, welfare and social service reforms, and, most importantly to LePage, an income tax cut which was voted down 9-4 Tuesday night. Debate over the budget and relations between the Republicans in the House and Senate has grown bitter.

On Tuesday, Republican Sen. Tom Saviello of Wilton said House Minority Leader Ken Fredette’s claims that he was shut out of budget negotiations were “beyond absurd.” Fredette, of Newport, said Senate Republicans made a budget deal three days before they told any House Republicans about it.

Fredette said his caucus in the House is solid enough to prevent a two-thirds vote, which is needed in both chambers first to enact the budget and then to override an expected LePage veto. Democrats and independents need 18 Republicans in the House and nine Republicans in the Senate to vote with them to achieve two-thirds

The Appropriations Committee, which on Monday passed its deadline goal for completing the budget, will continue deliberations Wednesday.