Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher was barely covering her anger with a smile at a meeting of the Legislative Commission on Planning and Fiscal Policy Friday afternoon.

She was demanding that Tom Hanson, the state’s finance commissioner, give precise details of how much money the governor plans to take from local government aid, education and Health and Human Services.

“What is the plan?’’ she kept asking Hanson.

Hanson claimed he doesn’t know and at one point tried to lecture the speaker.

“We don’t have to go there if we come to a negotiated settlement,’’ Hanson said.

Kelliher’s anger, as well as the anger of other DFL members of the committee, increased.

“Do you think the public has a right to know [about what funding Pawlenty would strip]?’’ Kelliher asked.

“Absolutely,’’ said Hanson, backing off a bit.

“That’s what I’m asking for,’’ Kelliher said.

Governors have used unallotment before - Rudy Perpich and Al Quie, for example, used it. Pawlenty has used it twice.

But those usages came in times of financial emergency. Never before has a governor planned to use it to the degree Pawlenty has pledged to use it if he and the Legislature can’t come to agreement by midnight Monday.

For the moment, the DFL strategy seems to be fourfold.

1, DFLers want the public to understand that unallotment will create the tax increases Pawlenty insists he opposes. County and local governments clearly will lose state government aid in any line-item veto or unallotment decisions the governor makes.

2, DFLers clearly are trying to put pressure on Republicans in the House. Unallotment will end up creating pain in the districts of Republican representatives.

“They [Republican] legislators are going to have a choice,’’ Kelliher said, following the meeting. “Will the minority give unilateral power to the governor to unallot, or will they decide to work together?’’

3, DFLers will continue to insist that Pawlenty specifically outline the programs he plans to cut through unallotment.

4, DFLers will argue the tax hikes they proposed throughout the session - and the tax hikes vetoed by the governor - were far more fair than the governor’s process of unallotment and vetoes will be.

The DFL leadership is passing out a document showing that the fourth-tier tax hike they proposed - and the governor vetoed - would cost a family of four with an annual income of $300,000  $9 a month.

“A pizza a month,’’ said Kelliher in contempt. “Is it worth a pizza a month to that family to keep their hospitals open, their seniors cared for?’’

(For families of four with an income of $400,000, the cost of a fourth tier would be a bunch of pizzas. According to the DFL chart, that family would pay $3 a day, $102 a month more.) 

To this moment, legislative Republicans still are standing with their governor.

At Friday’s meeting, for example, Rep. Paul Kohls, R-Victoria, tried to take the tack Hanson tried to take.

“Let’s get our job done,’’ Kohls said. “. . . .I think the leaders should be meeting [with the governor] and reaching agreements so we can get our job done. What we’re doing [in the meeting] is wasting time.’’

Kelliher was not having any part of it.

“I believe the public has a right to know what this governor has in mind,’’ she said, aiming an angry smile at Kohls.

The Legislature will be meeting through Friday and throughout the weekend, as well as Monday.