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Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 May 2009 12:32 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 5 May 2009 12:32
From The Jamestown Sun:
The state House and Senate will convene at 8 a.m. today and plan to finish its work on final bills by day’s end. It will make this session the longest ever, at 79 days, breaking the previous record of 78 days set during the last session in 2007.
Lawmakers met in two floor sessions to vote on bills Saturday but most of the energy went into conference committee negotiations on the last, complicated or contentious “sticky wicket” issues, as House Majority Leader Al Carlson, R-Fargo, calls them.
Most of the legislators were allowed to go home for the weekend after a 12:30 p.m. floor session. Some were glad to be let loose because they had tickets for that evening’s Elton John-Billy Joel concert at the Fargodome.