Legislative Commentary

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. With one exception, the full Senate generally focused on the simple an...