We are coming to the last few weeks of session and it has flown by. This week was slower than normal for Senator Givens I assume because all the major pieces of legislation have been voted on unlike last year when it was not till the last day when they decided they wanted to vote. On Tuesday during session there was only one bill voted on.  This past Thursday a large number of bills were on the consent calendar but there were also a couple voted on. One of the most important dealt with the filing of running for an office the date was moved from Januaray to April. At first a large majority of Democrats didnt vote on the bill then after one of the three recesses they all came back and asked the Speaker Pro-tiem to record there vote as a yes vote with out changing the outcome of the bill. This was the most important piece of legislation.

The other interesting part of my day was went I was sent to go fetch Representative Turner from the House to come and speak with Senator Givens. Not knowing that Rep Turner was upset with Sen Givens after a while of searching I finally find Rep Turner. I told him that my Senator would like to speak with him and I got a couple choice words to respond back to Sen Givens. Come to find out the reason for Rep Turner being upset was because Senator Givens did not call his bill up in Sen Ag Committee. Senator Givens then proceeded to use me as practice for the conversation that would occur between him and Rep Turner. He ended with Im the chair  of the committee I can not look at certain types of legislation if I desire not too. One thing that I have really noticed this time is that people in leadership positions have a large amount of power and when needed they will use it.