Sam Spade
SamSpade
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« on: June 25, 2007, 01:42:03 PM » |
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While I would fundamentally agree with the Peter position, recently passed Article 9 makes his position slightly less sound. The first clause of that reads:
"The Senate's consideration of legislation shall not be unduly interupted by the official end of the Senate term and the introduction of new Senators. There shall be no need to deem legislation expired."
There would seem to be some question in my mind whether this provision overrules the whole of Article 3, Section 3, even though it is silent about such provisions. IMHO, the need for legislation to expire is very important and I would never have agreed to such an amendment.
Anyway, as clearly indicated by some of the actions of the previous session, the OSPR is in need of some repair and one of my goals during this Senate is to rewrite the OSPR to take into account many of these new problems that have arisen.
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