There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
Connectivity is important to our state, including the opportunity for our citizens to see our legislative process at work.
I love working the legislative process.
I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.
In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.
Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.
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