Working Hard for the Money
After rocketing out of the blocks last Monday, lawmakers must be returning with some trepidation to the Hill today. Will the exhausting pace continue?
By the end of the first week of the session, so many controversial and complicated bills had been briskly shoved into the legislativepipe that heads were in danger of exploding.
Important tax, abortion and voting reform bills had blown through committees.
Even the proudly "deliberative" Senate was crankin'.
Members there wrapped up the first floor debate on the controversial evolution theory bill. (It will likely be approved and moved on to the House today.)
"Four days!" said Senate President John Valentine on Thursday, "It seems like 42 days."
In the House, a frazzled Rep. Steve Urquhart agreed. "It feels like we've been in session two weeks."
Perhaps, Sen. Ed Mayne put it best when he awoke to find a telecommunications tax exemption measure flying by. "Whaa? I thought we wouldn't be doing this yet -- it's only the second day!"
-- Glen Warchol
By the end of the first week of the session, so many controversial and complicated bills had been briskly shoved into the legislativepipe that heads were in danger of exploding.
Important tax, abortion and voting reform bills had blown through committees.
Even the proudly "deliberative" Senate was crankin'.
Members there wrapped up the first floor debate on the controversial evolution theory bill. (It will likely be approved and moved on to the House today.)
"Four days!" said Senate President John Valentine on Thursday, "It seems like 42 days."
In the House, a frazzled Rep. Steve Urquhart agreed. "It feels like we've been in session two weeks."
Perhaps, Sen. Ed Mayne put it best when he awoke to find a telecommunications tax exemption measure flying by. "Whaa? I thought we wouldn't be doing this yet -- it's only the second day!"
-- Glen Warchol
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By the end of the first week of the session, so many controversial and complicated bills had been briskly shoved into the legislativepipe that heads were in danger of exploding.
Reminds me:
I need to put the Trib on "vacation hold" until the legislature is no longer in session.
I think we need a state constitutional amendment that holds the number of state laws constant. Every proposed new law must cite an old law that will be repealed if the proposed law becomes law.
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