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Executive Session for the rest of my committee's crossover bills from the Senate today; will be livetweeting as usualPermalink On twitter.com
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This is continued from our Executive Session on the 18th; SB400 got put off from then until now: @cooljeanius/1516053000976048139Permalink On twitter.com
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kind of a tangent but I think Hollywood does us a disservice by setting all its political dramas in Washington, DC, where all the politicians are well-groomed and have perfectly-fitted suits; politics at the state level has people looking a lot more ordinary and shabbierPermalink On twitter.com
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(and yes I include myself in the people I'm calling "shabby"; I *like* being able to get away with old and worn-out clothing. Attribute it to that "Yankee frugality" people are raised with here, I guess)Permalink On twitter.com
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also I wish we had a bigger State House Press Corps; so much stuff goes unreported here... (to be clear, I'm not blaming our existing reporters for anything here; they do a great job with the time they have. The problem is just that there aren't enough of them for all of us)Permalink On twitter.com
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Substitutes today: Reps Merner and Moffett on the GOP side; Rep. Treleaven is missing on the Dem sidePermalink On twitter.com
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Apparently "interim study as amended" isn't a proper motion, so the amendment got stripped off of (one of) the bills we exec-ed last timePermalink On twitter.com
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Yeah I think that was SB249 that was meant: @cooljeanius/1516073187041239045Permalink On twitter.com
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I regretted my vote on the amendment to that anyways, so I'm not too upset to see it gone: @cooljeanius/1516072990533955587Permalink On twitter.com
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Anyways we're discussing an amendment to SB329 that Rep. Piemonte proposed now; some confusion about germanenessPermalink On twitter.com
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basically Rep. Piemonte wants to add something about local tax cap overrides to the latest proposed housing study committeePermalink On twitter.com
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hearing on SB329: @cooljeanius/1512169930682249217Permalink On twitter.com
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all the support for the bill was as unamended: @cooljeanius/1512173542883930119Permalink On twitter.com
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The way that Rep. Piemonte is getting around the germaneness rule is by including one germane part along with all the non-germane stuffPermalink On twitter.com
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I'm reminded of the last time we had a germaneness kerfuffle; let's see if I can find it...Permalink On twitter.com
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yeah it was about the "purple paint" bill: @cooljeanius/1421935822408982528Permalink On twitter.com
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that was last May: @cooljeanius/1391744469595312129Permalink On twitter.com
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"germane" and "germaneness" are different search terms apparently, so that's why my first search didn't find this: @cooljeanius/1391746296973860870On twitter.com
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same thing with "germane" vs. "non-germane": @cooljeanius/1394334403179028482Permalink On twitter.com
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some confusion over which bill this amendment's language is descended from; HB1194 apparently? Let's see if I've said anything about that previously...Permalink On twitter.com
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yeah that was from February: @cooljeanius/1496546012495859716Permalink On twitter.com
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well before our committee at least; full House voted on it in March: @cooljeanius/1504535058782339084Permalink On twitter.com
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dunno why if it already passed the House, we have to go attaching it to a separate Senate Bill, too...Permalink On twitter.com
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The clerk confirmed for us, btw, that he hadn't actually seen this amendment to this bill...Permalink On twitter.com
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oops looks like I forgot to include the #NHPolitics hashtag at the top of the thread; it's applicable throughoutPermalink On twitter.com
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what a procedural mess...Permalink On twitter.com
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I am thankful for @nhhouseclerk's expertise and wish he could just run this committee for us instead...Permalink On twitter.com
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apologies to all the people sitting in the audience for having to sit through this allPermalink On twitter.com
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amendment passes along party lines, 10-8Permalink On twitter.com
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we're trying to add a separate amendment from @rosemarierung but... argle-bargle...Permalink On twitter.com
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Okay it looks like we can vote on Rep. Rung's amendment; apparently this just adds some clarifications that @TeamRebeccaNH wanted to addPermalink On twitter.com
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Rep. Rung's amendment fails along party lines, 10-8; time to vote on the bill as a whole as amended with the majority amendmentPermalink On twitter.com
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boy will the recommendations for this one be a pain to right upPermalink On twitter.com
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SB329 passes as amended along party lines, 10-8... onto SB334Permalink On twitter.com
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hearing for SB334: @cooljeanius/1512176618042798092Permalink On twitter.com
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SB334 passes unanimously and goes on the consent calendarPermalink On twitter.com
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a little bit of a break before we get to our final bill, SB400 (the housing toolbox)Permalink On twitter.com
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ok here comes the latest amendment to SB400Permalink On twitter.com
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ugh they're trying to sneak in more poison pills here, tooPermalink On twitter.com
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they're trying to add language from some other bills we'd already voted on herePermalink On twitter.com
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so yeah they're trying to put language from HB1268 and HB1272 in here: @cooljeanius/1498306716555005959Permalink On twitter.com
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HB1393, too: @cooljeanius/1504543749464104966Permalink On twitter.com
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it's becoming another "Christmas Tree" billPermalink On twitter.com
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I *had* been supporting SB400 previously, but if this amendment to it passes...Permalink On twitter.com
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The amendment passed along party lines, 10-8; time to vote on the entire bill as amended...Permalink On twitter.com
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Republicans are trying to make it look like we're opposing housing here when we're ready just opposing the poison pills they're trying to sneak inPermalink On twitter.com
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SB400 passes as amended, along party lines, 10-8... time to adjourn. How frustrating...Permalink On twitter.com
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