This cartoon is making the rounds among legislators. The line at the bottom says, "C'mon, c'mon, it's either one or the other!" Meanwhile, the latest word is that the conference committee won't meet before 12:30 now...
The conference committee will reconvene at 11:15, Chairman Bert Brackett just announced. “We’ll have some more discussion, we’ll take some more straw polls and then we’ll decide from there where we’re going to go,” he said. Asked if the panel is at an impasse, Brackett...
Rep. Linden Bateman, R-Idaho Falls, poses with his artwork entitled, “The Salamander Kid,” picturing his rendition of Rep. Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, who can be seen at right. Loertscher, of course, chairs the House State Affairs Committee, which first killed, then passed legislation to make the…
The House has convened, but recessed until 1:30 p.m....
If one cent or two still divides ‘em And gas taxes are what decides ‘em Why can’t they agree On taxes and fees Before Cowboy Butch has to ride ‘em?
The conference committee has taken four straw polls in a row, and all failed on 4-2 votes, with just Reps. Joe Palmer and John Vander Woude objecting, except for the final one, with just Palmer and Vander Woude supported. The first proposal, from Sen. Roy...
After a brief break, the conference committee has reconvened. Sen. Dean Cameron said he has comments in response to those before the break from Rep. Joe Palmer. “I’m not interested in surviving an election,” Cameron said. “I’m interested in doing the right thing, and doing…
As the conference committee opened its work this morning, Chairman Bert Brackett asked each member, going around the table, to say “where do you think we should end up to go forward with this issue?” House Transportation Chairman Joe Palmer, R-Meridian, went first. “I think…
The conference committee on transportation funding is reconvening this morning...
A House committee is holding up a bill to bring Idaho’s child support enforcement plan into compliance with federal law – potentially losing the state tens of millions of dollars, forcing the layoff of more than 100 state employees and cancelling contracts across the state...
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