On tonight’s “Idaho Reports” on Idaho Public Television, co-host Melissa Davlin interviews outgoing U.S. Attorney for Idaho Wendy Olson, and Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls. The show also includes a roundup of the events of the week; and on the pundits panel, Idaho…
As Rep. Dustin Manwaring, R-Pocatello, argued for his early voting time restrictions bill in the House today, he named several counties, referring to their current practices, including “Kooten-EYE County.” House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, asked him, “Good gentleman, did you just add a 45th county…
An image of the Old Mission at Cataldo is part of the frescoes that adorn the historic and ornate Brumidi Corridors of the U.S. Capitol, and Idaho Sen. Jim Risch and his wife, Vicki, have joined with the Idaho Historical Society to highlight the Idaho…
The Senate has unanimously passed HB 97, the legislation to keep Idaho’s current rule for when attorney fees should be awarded to the prevailing party in a civil case – rather moving to a new “loser-pay” system on March 1. The Idaho Supreme Court, in…
The House has voted 45-24 in favor of freshman Rep. Dustin Manwaring’s bill to limit early voting to the period from between three weeks before the election and one week before. “There is a misconception that extending early voting for periods longer than three weeks…
After a two and a half hour hearing in which 25 people testified, all of them against SCR 108, the Senate State Affairs Committee has voted 5-4 in favor of it. Here’s how the vote broke down: Voting in favor: Sens. Hagedorn, Hill, Lodge, Lakey...
More than 20 people have now testified at this morning’s hearing on SCR 108, the constitutional convention resolution on a balanced budget amendment, all opposing it. Only the presenters of the bill have spoken in favor. Here are some more of the comments: Suzanne Stone...
More than a dozen people have testified to the Senate State Affairs Committee so far this morning, all against SCR 108, the resolution calling on Idaho to petition for an Article V constitutional convention for the purpose of enacting a balanced budget amendment. Among them:...
Among those testifying this morning on SCR 103, the resolution calling on Idaho to petition for an Article V constitutional convention for the purpose of enacting a balanced budget amendment: Julie Custer, co-president of AAUW Idaho, spoke against a balanced budget amendment. “Sometimes incurring a…
Former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig told the Senate State Affairs Committee this morning that he “took up the cudgel of the balanced budget amendment” because in his nearly three decades in Congress, Congress itself couldn’t restrain its own spending. “No congress can bind themselves to...
More than 200 people showed up for the Senate State Affairs Committee meeting this morning, so many that it had to be moved across the hall to the Lincoln Auditorium, the Statehouse’s largest meeting room. Legislation from Sen. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, calling for Idaho to…
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