Mississippi lawmakers are in special session to consider several issues, including keeping the state employment agency alive.

Gov. Haley Barbour has put eight items on the agenda for the session that started Wednesday.

One of the biggies, plugging a $90 million hole in the Medicaid budget, isn't even officially on the "to do" list. But it might be added.

Barbour says he wants lawmakers to reauthorize the Mississippi Department of Employment Security; to pass a metal recycling bill; to limit future casino sites and to make changes to a toll-road law.

He also wants them to enact voter identification; to revise an immigration law; to grant pay raises to judges and district attorneys; and to give utility companies quicker right of way access as they work on coastal recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

Some lawmakers are upset that Barbour gave them official notice of the special session the afternoon before it started.

Democratic Rep. Willie Perkins from Greenwood said, "He's totally disgusted that this governor would wait until 4:30 to let him know that there's a special session the next day at 10 a.m."