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Today will be lived in crescendo. Joint leadership will meet in the early morning to make final plans. The Senate will work on House Bills. The House will work on Senate Bills. The Senate will concur (or not) to House amendments to Senate Bills. The House will concur (or not) to Senate amendments to House Bills.

Watch for conference committees throughout the day. A conference committee is the negotiating team that attempts to resolve differences between House and Senate versions of a bill. If you don’t know where they're meeting just follow the sound of shouting.

Senator Hickman, Chair of the Senate Rules Committee, was always cool, but today he becomes a rock star. Everyone wants their bills out of the Rules Committee.

Bills are debated and acted on much faster than earlier in the session. You’ll see hopes (and tensions and tempers) rise and fall as the clock hurtles toward midnight. All interested parties will realize the temporary success or failure of their bills and budget items.

At exactly midnight our voting machine shuts down and the 2007 Legislative Session will end.

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