This week has been very hectic the actions in the General Assembly and the Committees are beginning to pick up. Appropriations and Revenue had a controversial bill posted, HB 427 dealing with the KLEEP program. The state police didn’t like the wording that would make them abide by the Police Officers Bill of Rights when they have there own disciplinary procedures. The discussion of this bill lasted well over an hour and there was great debate on the content of the bill, it passed favorably but with a couple members of the majority caucus stating that for their vote on the floor this bill would needed to be further researched and amended. Again this instance showed how service representation in our state plays a key role and policy tends to take a back burner. On Thursday, I attended a KMA and KHA conference that Rep. DeWeese spoke at outlining his proposed health bills and their progress. He invited them to come to the Health and Welfare committee where he was presenting his bill, HB 371. It was really neat to actually see the bill I had been following and hearing a lot about play out in the committee, it passed favorably. The most exciting thing of my day was my conversation with a lobbyist from the KMA he first asked me if I plan to go into politics, I replied yes hopefully someday, he then asked if I would rather do his job or Rep DeWeese job. This sparked a conversation on he his career as a lobbyist has been and how he got into his line of work and concluded with him trying to recruit me by telling me to remember the KMA and his occupation when I graduate college. It was amazing because I had just seen a lobbyist at work selling once again not to a representative but to me.