Says Jason Mercer at the conservative Washington Policy Center:
The impact of this change is a bill that is adopted by a committee can be voted on by the full Senate on the same day instead of having to wait until the next day.
This change is the antithesis of efforts to create a “time out” period to allow lawmakers adequate time to review proposed changes in law or budget details prior to voting.
… Arguing in favor of this change to Senate rules Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown and Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt said it was necessary to save taxpayers money and expedite the special session.
Read the full post, right here.
Q: For a bit more background, every day the Legislature is in special sessions costs about $18,000 in taxpayer money. That’s part of the argument Senate leaders are making for the suspension of this rule. Do you agree with speeding up the process for proposal consideration for this special session?
March 15th, 2010 at 12:43 PM
$18,000 a day to keep the legislature in session seems, frankly, extremely low. If that really is the whole amount, I think taking a few extra days to ensure that policy is not made without appropriate oversight would be not only acceptable, but preferred.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:50 PM
Methinks those that govern who make rash decisions can surely cost us a lot more than can be merely measured by money!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
March 15th, 2010 at 7:18 PM
Speeding up the process?
That’s the Blind leading the Blind, and the obvious failure in State Education, defined well in McCleary v. State Legislature, without a clue!
235. It would be an inappropriate role for the court, respecting separation of powers, to
set the outcome standards for the State. It is the Washington Legislature that has set the
academic standards for the children resident in this State. The overwhelming evidence is that the
State’s students are not meeting those standards and that the State is not fully funding the
programs, even currently available, to meet such standards. Nor should this court determine what
level of “ample” input is needed to achieve such standards and goals – that also is the prerogative
of the legislative body.
This is what happens when the’ve been left behind for 30 years, they still can’t figure it out, even if it was 18 million a day.
The Acedemic Standards, from Brown, who flunked 8th grade civics, what a concept.
March 16th, 2010 at 7:30 AM
Liberty Bell, calling Senate Majority Leader Brown stupid is sort of low, isn’t it? For the record, Senator Brown has a Ph.D. in economics and has been a tenured college professor for nearly two decades.
March 16th, 2010 at 7:43 AM
So JK?
A PHD, a tenured College Professor?
And the Washington State Supreme’s Court in “Brown v. Owen”
The term used was “grave violation” of course PHD, in Brown’s case is “positivily has delusions”