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Arizona Legislature Ends Session
http://ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket/2008/07/arizona-legisla.htmlBy Jan Goehring The Arizona Legislature adjourned sine die on Friday, June 27. With the end of the fiscal year looming and a possible partial state government shutdown at stake, the Legislature resolved a difficult budget. Facing a nearly $2... …
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Legislative Pay Raise Vetoed
http://ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket/2008/07/legislative-pay.htmlby Tim Storey It may be the most radioactive issue for legislators to deal with--their own pay. Legislators in Louisiana must be feeling a bit burned after the governor reversed his position under intense outrage from some Pelican State residents... …
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Legislative Law Bulletin
http://legislativelawbulletin.wordpress.comLinks Statutory Construction Blog The Thicket at State Legislatures
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Safire's Political Dictionary
http://hawaiihouseblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/safires-politica...Here's some great summer reading for political junkies. The Thicket (the National Conference of State Legislatures' blog) alerted us to the fact that William Safire's Political Dictionary, first published in 1968, is out as a new 2008 edition. Safire explains what's in and what's out:
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Get Out Your Veto Pen, Bobby
http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/267355.phpthe salary of the part-time legislators effective July 8, to $37,500 from $16,800, with considerably more money available once expenses are added in. It has touched a nerve in this impoverished state. Now I don't know about you, but I don't find that increased legislative salary of $37,500 to be all that outrageous (although a 123% pay raise is galling) -- though I am unsure whether or not the legislature is a year-round entity or only a part time, limited session institution like we have here in Texas. But when you add in the per diem
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Internet Increasing Constituent Interaction, Pressuring Legislative Staffs
http://indianachamberblogs.com/technology/internet-increasin...not be alone. Seems many more people are contacting their legislators these days thanks to the Internet, and often do so without a returned message or a satisfactory response, at least according to a Congressional Management Foundation study found on The Thicket
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Building A Better Indiana
http://indianachamberblogs.coms Chamberpost Hoosier Access Inside Indiana Business Newsroom Advance Indiana Howey Politics Hoosierpundit Biz Central BlogNetNews Indiana Governing - 13th Floor Indy Insights Capitol Watchblog Stateline The Thicket
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Putting a check on bad e-mail habits
http://www.gongol.com/fft/2008/06/21/June 17, 2008 Federal funding of $2 billion released for Iowa flooding recovery 20% of Americans say they're going online once a week to do something campaign-related That's an amazing figure, especially considering how long this campaign has gone on. One of the big problems out there is how thoughtlessly people will forward on inaccurate e-mail that simply confirms their previously-held biases rather than looking
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What Would Happen if Congress were Abolished?
http://uppity.refugeecamp.us/666From The Thicket… In the process of searching for old documentaries on government, my colleague Gene Rose found a 1947 Coronet Instructional film, “The Powers of Congress.” This 10 minute video features a character, Charles Bentley, who complains bitterly about
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State & local experience
http://www.masson.us/blog/?p=3264touches on an issue
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Term Limits In Reverse
http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2008/06/04/term-limits-in-...In honor of the rare example of a Presidential nominee having state legislative experience, the Thicket explores an interesting question: could states require Congressmen and Senators to have state legislative experience? If states can make experience a disqualification for federal office (i.e. term limits), then could they impose an experience requirement as a
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