House moving along today
After passing 28 bills and killing one – where yesterday the House only got to three bills all day – the House has taken a lunch recess, and will be back on the floor at 1:30 p.m. It managed to make it through the entire morning without any of a small group of dissident Republicans objecting to waiving reading of a bill.
Have the dissidents’ concerns been addressed? It’s unclear. Whenever a bill sponsor asked to waive further reading today, they carefully recited the Senate’s formal language for doing so, which dissident Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, maintains is the only constitutionally correct way to waive full reading of a bill.
Meanwhile, Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, put up an angry Facebook post last night a little after 10 p.m., saying, “What is the IDAHO STATE LEGISLATURE waiting for? The grocery tax bill (H67aa) has PASSED the senate and is sitting on the DESK of the Speaker of the House. Please let House members know where you stand on REPEALING the GROCERY TAX bill. LET IT BE HEARD AND VOTED ON!”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.