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Also note that as most tweets in my livetweet threads generally don't stand on their own, I'm not going to bother including the #NHPolitics hashtag with each of them, just the once here, even though it's technically applicable throughout
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Starting now... darn I missed Pastor Bob's last name again. He's having us do something silly again. Even if this prayer is from Pope Francis (who I like) you still have to admit this "five finger" thing is kind of corny.
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also lol at the middle finger
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I think it was this same prayer: @cooljeanius/1043929009522921473
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Memorializations still going on now
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ok we're getting to the actual legislation now
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oops I messed up my thread... dunno why we voted to table SB123, but anyways, onto SB137, on the tipped minimum age
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GOP is trying to prevent the tipped minimum wage if the federal one rises by changing it from a percentage of a the federal one to a set specific one, so that raising the federal one wouldn't raise ours.
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Wow, it sounds like Denny's really sucks, huh
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Thanks to Josh Adjutant for sticking up for workers on the tipped minimum wage! #NHPolitics #RaiseTheWage
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Yes, this bill IS in fact mean-spirited!
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The tipped employee "lobby", wtf?! Tipped employees aren't rich enough for a lobby! The closest thing they have is just #BigUs which is well, just us! #NotMeUs
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Rep. Infantine seems so offended to be called out on his BS.
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Really wish someone had gotten a chance to ask him which group he was referring to by saying the "tipped wage lobby" because as far as I'm aware, there's no such thing
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Onto bills from my committee now (M&CG); first is SB52, on Nashua's spending cap. Rep. Maggiore is making a motion to table.
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Speaker just turned a tie into a victory for his party again; this is Calvinball
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but yeah this bill is really bad for Nashua; Rep. Michael B. O'Brien is a Nashua alderman and is speaking against it.
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Boo Rep. Pauer's turn boo
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Oh well, sorry Nashua, we tried...
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onto SB86. This one was kind of complicated. First is the majority amendment to remove the housing portion, which was the only good part of the bill. Removing it ruins the bill.
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Oh well, that amendment passed; onto Rep. Stavis's amendment to fight back against the propane giveaways in Part III of of the bill...
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Honestly I would've gone farther with this amendment and just removed Part III of SB86 entirely, but I guess doing it this way was designed to get more GOP votes...
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Some confusion about the amendment process here
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I think the confusion is because Rep. Stavis is trying to introduce a different amendment now from the one she introduced in committee? Apparently she's trying to add Part II back in addition to modifying Part III, whereas in committee she was only trying to modify Part III...
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I'm not sure this is going to work...
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but yeah let's ban fossil fuels already, instead of doing a ban on municipalities banning them
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welp, time to vote against the entire bill now
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bill passes; onto a "print remarks" motion
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Being a Dillon Rule state sucks
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Onto SB102. This one is actually good, and would help with renewables and urban revitalization, so I'm looking forward to passing it.
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eyyyy we won something! Yay!
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Next is SB26 from Public Works & Highways; seems specific to Woodsville/Haverhill...
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lunch break time
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ok returning to legislating now; current bill is SB91, SciTech & Energy's only bill for this session. It's an omnibus on renewables and utilities.
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SB91 passes
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SB3 passes on voice vote
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SB27 passes on voice vote
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SB101 passes on voice vote; onto the bills removed from the consent calendar
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ok why was this (SB146) pulled off consent if no one spoke or voted against it out of the entire House?
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apparently SB131 was pulled from consent just because of a drafting error, but I don't see any similar such note for the previous one (SB146)...
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...uh... what is Rep. Sylvia doing here?
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I'm voting "no" to divide here, just because it's Mike Sylvia
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good grief this bill came out of committee unanimously; I thought it was just pulled off consent to fix a drafting error, not to give Mike Sylvia a chance to try to kill it...
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GOOD GRIEF
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We're really doing a roll call on this. SMH.
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ok got that out of the way; onto SB103, to try to add the language of HB177 to it, after the Senate killed HB177 in their chamber. (HB177 was the one to establish a buffer zone around state parks to prevent siting landfills near them) #SaveForestLake
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Yay, we won! HB177 language successfully added to to SB103!
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SB103 passes with amendment! That's good!
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Josh Adjutant is trying to suspend the rules to turn an amendment he'd intended to introduce into a bill; it'd be to give people time off from work to get vaccinated
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This was originally going to be an amendment to SB123, but unfortunately we tabled that before he had a chance to introduce it, so that's why we're doing it this way
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Bald-ASS-aro
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Shame on Rep. Baldasaro for speaking to @RepNicoleK like that
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oh well so much for that; onto the third reading motion...
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ok closing up now; we'll be back next Thursday (June 10th)
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Uh... Max Abramson is saying something about the Tulsa Massacre... I'm kinda scared of where he might go with this; I don't trust him not to be racist...
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Oh he's turning this into a "the press is lying!" and "Dems are the REAL racists!" screed
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ok we've adjourned for real now
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I wonder who the black libertarian was that Rep. Abramson was mentioning... only one I can think of is @MAJTOURE but he quit the Libertarian Party after some sort of falling-out with them...
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But yeah, takeaways from today: - Dems want to #RaiseTheWage, GOP doesn’t - GOP opposes local control, Dems support it - Dems want you to have housing, GOP doesn’t - GOP likes fossil fuels, Dems don’t - Dems want to let you take time off to get vaccinated, GOP doesn’t #NHPolitics