KINDER'S COMMENTARY: LEGISLATIVE PACE IS SLOW THIS YEAR

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Thursday, March 14, 1996

In the General Assembly, we are home on spring break this week before returning Monday for the last eight weeks of the legislative session that will end in mid-May. As the session has unfolded, with little floor action on major bills, I keep confronting senior members of both parties with a question. It is this: Can you recall any session with less timely action on major bills than this one? House or Senate, I haven't found a person yet who answers in the affirmative. This one's going slow, real slow.

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