Short week and a new toy for the honorables
The House and Senate wrapped up their short work week today without doing much in way of substantive legislating, although a few bills did get themselves filed.
Among those is this bill, which would let the honorables elect their top leaders and then go home for a few weeks while committees and appointments are sorted out. What we’re in for right now is a few weeks of wheel spinning while the House especially gets its act together.
It makes all the sense in the world, so my cynical side tells me it’s probably doomed.
Speaking of making sense, the legislature’s bill drafting office got itself a blog, where you can find handy stuff like bill filing deadlines.
This may not excite you, but for us government geeks it’s the bomb.
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It excites me too Mark ... I don't know what that says of either one of us though.
Posted on January 25, 2007 3:44 PM
Let me get this straight. The "honorables" went to work yesterday (Wednesday) at noon. They "wrapped up" today (Thursday).
All they got "done" was filing a few bills . . . including one that would let them stay at home for a few more weeks and do a whole lot of nothing.
My cynical side says that we're the ones who are doomed.
Posted on January 25, 2007 7:26 PM
Dr. Mary:
Slow starts aren't unexpected for the legislature. Actually, I'd be a little more worried if they were trying to let it rip right out of the gate. Now, if they're not humming along in two weeks, that's the time to get cranky.
Posted on January 25, 2007 7:39 PM
Mark, I've been "cranky" about what this crowd has not done (to protect doctors or enforce the law) for every day of nine years, February 2. A couple of weeks is nothing.
Maybe it will give "the honorables" time to read the link I sent them.
Posted on January 25, 2007 9:23 PM