Legislative Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Tues., March 30
Better late than never.
No, no, not the post-game show from last Thursday’s session, but House Resolution 38, introduced and passed Thursday (March 25), “PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY 21-27, 2010 AS FOOD CHECK-OUT WEEK IN DELAWARE.”
Memo to Rep. Pam Thornburg: If you’re gonna do a resolution like this, it might be more effective to do it before the event, not a month afterwards. Doesn’t matter. She’s gone after November regardless. Just didn’t think she’d already retired.
Thursday was the day for Strangulation ‘N Strawberries. The only two notable pieces of legislation to pass the Senate were SB 197, which makes strangulation a stand-alone crime; and Rep. Hocker’s ode to Strawberry Fields Forever.
The House passed several bills that had been on the agenda for some time: Rep. B. Short’s door-to-door sales regulations; Rep. Keeley’s consumer protection improvements package; and Rep. Barbieri’s bill strengthening no-contact requirements for domestic abuse orders.
Here’s the entire session report from Thursday.
Time to feed the frenzy for today. OK, frenzy is too strong a word. Unless regulating golf carts in Bowers Beach gets your pulse a-racin’. Here’s today’s Senate agenda.
Today’s House agenda once again features Sen. DeLuca’s SB 60. Last week, the News-Journal finally awakened to just how ill-advised this bill is, something that DL has written about for two months. Whether it makes a difference or not, we may find out today. Or the bill may continue to languish, which I’d be fine with. Has the Beaudhisattva attained enlightenment yet?
The big news, covered in depth by DL yesterday, is that Pete Schwartzkopf will try to run his Two New Casinos bill this week. I doubt that he’ll bring it up unless he knows he has the votes in the House. I suspect that this is one of those works-in-progress where you really don’t want to ‘see the sausage made’. Meaning, one would hope that the press corps is trying to see how the sausage is made. Which likely ain’t happening.
Tags: casino gambling, Delaware General Assembly, Pam Thornburg
Nullification alert: GOP-issued spam informs me that Debbie Capano is pushing legislation “to Protect Delawareans from Healthcare Mandates.”
Debbie: “This bill attempts to do two things I think are of extreme importance. First, it preserves Delawareans’ freedom of choice in matters of healthcare. Under this bill, our residents would have free will to join the government plan, continue with their private healthcare coverage, or pay for their healthcare out of their own pocket – without the threat of being bullied into a decision by the federal government. Secondly, it defends Delaware’s right to govern its own citizens.”
Do you think that Debbie Capano’s bill will Protect Delawareans from their Medicare Contribution Mandates too?
Wake me up when these people have something useful to contribute.