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Today is the final day of session. 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.) In prior years you could find them by listening for shouting. This year - not so much.

Senate Leadership will prioritize senate bills for the House to consider. House Leadership will prioritize house bills for the Senate to consider. Leadership of both bodies will trade lists.

Bills are debated and acted on much faster than earlier in the session. You’ll see hopes rise and fall as the clock hurtles toward midnight.

We're hoping to finish early this year. We'll see. The latest we can continue work is the stroke of midnight when the voting machine locks up. You can watch or listen live on our official site.

It's been a tough but productive session. Beneficial, I hope. Thanks for paying attention.

1 Comments:

 Kirk Yuhnke said...

Love the graphic. Thing is, if Jack Bauer was here, all of our problems would be solved. Oh well.

3/12/2009 10:59 AM  

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