Wednesday, February 11, 2009

One Small Step For Hops

We passed the Senate Tourism committee today on a unanimous vote. There was even a nice write-up by Phillip Rawls on the AP wire. While certainly welcome news, it was not at all unexpected; we passed the same committee last year. We never expected opposition in committee, and (cross your fingers while knocking on wood) we don't expect any serious obstructionism if our bill ever comes to the floor in the Senate.

We went into this session expecting our main difficulty to be the do-nothing posture of the Senate, and per my post below, that expectation was valid.

So everything's in place for us to come to a floor vote in the Senate... it all hinges on whether they do any real work this year. Hope for the best.

posted by Danner at 6:31 PM permanent link

2 Comments:

Unknown said...: I'm going to write a very angry letter with lots of vulgarity in it (yes, I know that doesn't work and is likely to create a negative effect, but sometimes you have to say mean things to get them off your chest) if this guy holds up the senate and this bill doesn't get passed AGAIN.; February 13, 2009 11:28 AM
Andy and Jennfier said...: agreed, it's a little out of hand when a state senate has a reputation for not getting things done.; February 13, 2009 10:33 PM