Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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The Legislature has adjourned for the year. We wrapped up our voting late Tuesday night, on the 20th day of an overtime session that would not have been necessary if my leadership counterparts in the House of Representatives had simply followed the rules about preparing a budget proposal. Now that the 2016 legislative session has ended, the scoring has begun. Groups representing business, labor, environmental and other interests will look at voting records and decide who deserves their praise. Newspaper editorials are...
While the speed limits on our roads may be inconvenient at times, they exist for a reason. You can complain that the speed limit is too restrictive (and bills to raise speed limits on certain roads have been introduced during this legislative term) but that’s no excuse for ignoring the law. A 2012 state law places a limit on government spending. Not only does the budget have to balance for the two-year cycle it covers (2015-17, currently), but the spending level it sets also can’t exceed the amount of available revenue exp...
The two Senate committees that address fiscal issues – Transportation, and the one I serve on, Ways and Means – have joined the policy committees in taking a break so the entire Senate may go to work fulltime in the Senate chamber. We’ll have through March 11 to decide which bills move across the Capitol Rotunda to the House of Representatives. This past week, with the policy committees already on pause, the Senate’s days were pretty much divided between action on the “floor” of the Senate and work in the fiscal committees....
Ninth District, Senate Republican Leader The second week of our eight-week legislative session wrapped up last week. The Senate’s 12 policy committees are going at full speed, considering they’re already halfway through the time allowed for taking action on Senate legislation. The two budget committees, which have until Feb. 11 to move Senate bills forward, will shift into high gear next week. I wouldn’t have guessed that the minimum wage in our state would be a hot-button issue in this year’s legislative session, but the...