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We learned that Republican leadership can make lemonade out of lemons. After being denied use of indoor facilities at UNH because of COVID concerns and some bogus notion that members of the House booze it up during House session, they were creative in putting together a “drive-in” parking lot session. Even though we started 1 …
So Kids, What Did We Learn From Convening Day In The NH House (01/06/21)? Read More »
After reading Rep. Lucy McVitty Weber’s op-ed (see below) which was unsurprisingly a partisan attack piece, I’d like to set the record straight. She is accurate in saying that legislating in these times has been challenging. The challenge has mostly been how to deal with people who balk at the NH House doing anything other …
A Response to Rep. Lucy McVitty Weber’s Partisan Attack Read More »
We learned that having Organization Day for the NH Legislature is non-negotiable. Holding Organization Day is required by our NH State Constitution. The General Court meets to organize itself on the first Wednesday of December in each even numbered year. On Organization Day all members present are sworn in by the Governor, in the presence …
So Kids, What Did We Learn From Organization Day at the NH House (12/02/20)? Read More »
We learned that in order to protect us all from catching the Coronavirus the Speaker of the House decided it was best to send us all to the current COVID Capitol of NH… Durham.
We learned that procedures on how the House and Senate process NH legislation can change radically and magically when a pandemic is in play. All Constitutional, House and Senate rules were tossed aside by the Democrat Majority in their rush to process all bills. The House and Senate Democrat Majority Leadership blamed that on the …
So kids, what did we learn from Tuesday’s House Session (06/30/20)? Read More »
We learned that $200,000+ in COVID/CARES funding can easily be spent on moving the NH House to the UNH Whittemore Arena for a day. The space was donated by UNH for this historic event, as the NH House has not met outside of traditional House Chambers since the Civil War. House Reps were treated to …
So kids, what did we learn from Thursday’s House Session (06/11/20)? Read More »
We learned that House Minority Republicans have stamina and wisdom. They made certain that the work of the NH House got done for the people of NH and for the constituents that they serve. They corrected the course of mismanagement of time and workload that was dealt to us by the House Majority Democrats who …
So kids, what did we learn from Thursday’s House Session (03/12/20-03/13/20)? Read More »
We learned that after the 9am-6pm day we had today, that we still have 151 House bills to vote on tomorrow (Thursday). According to House Rule 65, March 12th is the last day that we can act on House Bills. It is pretty clear that we will not meet that deadline. It is unclear what …
So kids, what did we learn from Wednesday’s House Session (03/11/20)? Read More »
We learned that the 37 bills that we spent time voting on today would have been all done on Feb 20th if we didn’t waste 4 hours on that day, at the Speaker’s discretion, reprimanding 8 legislators for not attending Sexual Harassment Training. Now we are behind in our schedule and we will have 350, …
So kids, what did we learn from Thursday’s House Session (03/05/20)? Read More »
Upon returning from lunch at 1:30 PM we learned that the New Hampshire House would forever be changed, and not in a good way. Read on and you will understand.
