Friday April 4, 2008
The session ends at midnight May 7. There are still literally thousands of bills that remain in the legislative pipeline. The House and Senate did about 150 minutes work yesterday before adjourning at about 5 p.m. for the annual intra-Capitol charity basketball tournament.
So when are they going to get down to a full day of actual business? Well, most Capitol lobbyists don’t care because they’re in the business of KILLING legislation, so time is their unpaid coworker.
For those who actually want to accomplish something this session, time is growing short.
And lawmakers are still kind of freaked out about going to actual voters for small campaign contributions, so there’s mounting pressure to come to a budget agreement before the end of the session, allowing them the whole summer to go hat in hand and leverage cash from the Citizens Election Fund.
Everything is set up for majority Democratics to heft a big, old waterlemon of bills on May Day, with only a week to figure out how to fit it into a bud vase.
