NH's "Play-by-Play" Guy2d ago
NH House is back in session this week, and I actually got here early for once! Like, even early for the pre-session caucus, too! Nice weather out today; hopefully we can get out early this time so that I can get some walking in, too... Livethread starts here. #NHPolitics
Show threadNH's "Play-by-Play" Guy2d ago
I count 21 bills on the regular calendar for today, so that's relatively light... also @[email protected] is here now!
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...and @[email protected] is back, too! bsky.app/profile/miss...

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"Members take your seats please"
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The Hudson middle schoolers did pretty good with the anthem today
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Speaker Packard updating us about his health: apparently he had a pretty bad fall, and will need further surgery.
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Now a commemoration of... ok I am suspicious of the historical claim here; it really took until 1782 for America to get our first Bible? Are we not counting the colonial period as being "America" here?
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So yeah @[email protected] has been sworn between the previous session and this one
Mar 26 at 2:17pmWeb
Show threadNH's "Play-by-Play" Guy2d ago
Starts the regular calendar with bills from Finance
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First bill is HB112, with a long title requiring a civics course at the college level for the USCIS citizenship test; this is already a requirement for high schoolers, so requiring it for college, too, is a redundant waste of time.
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Rep. Moffett is complaining about the Fiscal Note; well yeah, this should in fact cost money. I helped tutor for the citizenship test after I got back from college, and I'm still kinda bitter I didn't get paid for it. If it's something worth requiring, it should be something worth paying for!
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Ken Weyler is now complaining about wokeness in universities
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The USCIS test isn't actually as anti-woke as Weyler thinks it is; pretty much the only example I can think of at the moment of it being anti-woke is how they accept answers other than "slavery" for the question about causes of the US Civil War
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I should put in a bill in the future requiring NH administrators of the USCIS citizenship test to only accept "slavery" as an answer to the Civil War question in the future
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But anyways, HB112 passes OTP 191-157
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Now on HB629, raising the cost of a boat decal fee and allocating the funds collected by such fees to the dam maintenance fund
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This is a good bill; we should pass it
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Tabling motion on HB692 fails 155-192; now for the vote on the OTP motion... passes on voice vote
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Now on HB1130, relative to judicial performance evaluations
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Mark Paige moves to table HB1130
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Tabling motion fails 156-194
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I'm open to the idea of a website for judicial performance evaluations, I just don't trust the GOP to be the ones to set it up. It sounds like they have some grievances they're harboring here that's serving as their motivation, and that can't lead to good results...
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I wonder how the "calling balls and strikes" metaphor will survive, if the @[email protected] goes ahead with the "robot umps" proposal that people have been talking about...
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Point from in-room discussion: would retroactive evaluations be allowed on this website? Would people be allowed to evaluate Bob Lynn for his time as judge? But anyways, HB1130 passes OTP 194-156
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Reminder about voice votes sometimes being too quick to post about
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Now on HB1458; @[email protected] moves to table
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Previous time HB1458 came before us: bsky.app/profile/egal...

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Show threadNH's "Play-by-Play" Guy2d ago
So yeah Erica Layon is objecting to Rep. Germana's tabling motion just now: bsky.app/profile/egal...

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