Idaho Legislature Week 12

The final week of Idaho's 2010 legislative session in pictures

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Fri., April 2, 2010

Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake, presents new legislation Monday morning designed to require the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee to take public testimony, and to limit its use of "intent language" to suspend other state laws in the course of budget-setting bills.

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Rep. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, argues to the House Revenue & Taxation Committee on Monday morning that Idaho's taxes are too high; he was promoting HB 707, to cut the state's corporate and individual income tax rates by more than a third over the next 10 years. The bill, cosponsored by 31 GOP lawmakers, had an informational hearing Monday but won't advance this year.

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Senate President Pro-Tem Bob Geddes, right, shares a laugh with Lt. Gov. Brad Little, left, before the Senate starts its session on Monday morning.

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The House debates the higher ed budget on Monday morning, which includes big cuts. Rep. Tom Trail, R-Moscow, spoke out against the budget bill.

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Senate Transportation Chairman John McGee, R-Caldwell, left, proposes an amendment to a House-passed version of his texting-while-driving legislation in the Senate Transportation Committee on Monday afternoon. At right is committee vice-chair Sen. Jim Hammond, R-Post Falls.

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House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, told House members on Monday that it was one of those days where there'd be a lot of "hurry up and wait."

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David Hensley, legal counsel to Gov. Butch Otter, presents legislation to the House State Affairs Committee on Monday calling for amending the U.S. Constitution to ban any federal requirements to have health insurance.

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House Speaker Lawerence Denney, R-Midvale, presides over the House on Monday. The House Education Committee introduced new legislation Monday morning to clip the wings of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee; when Denney received it, he ordered it "held at the desk." If it stays there, it dies.

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Sens. Diane Bilyeu, D-Pocatello, left, and Joyce Broadsword, R-Sagle, center, talk with a Senate page during a break in Senate proceedings late Monday.

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The House debates legislation into the evening on Monday.

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Lt. Gov. Brad Little presides over the Idaho Senate on the final day of the 2010 legislative session on Monday.

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Members of the Idaho House deliberate on Monday, the final - and 78th - day of Idaho's 2010 legislative session.

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Gov. Butch Otter praises this year's legislative session in a press conference on Tuesday morning.

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House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, left, and Senate Minority Leader Kate Kelly, D-Boise, right, talk about the just-concluded Idaho legislative session on Tuesday.

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