While, on the surface, the coming week is shaping up to be a quiet one, below the surface, there is a lot of activity budget-wise as legislators (and others) try to finish up a state budget before many members of the R caucus travel to D.C. for a propaganda session White House "conference".
From Arizona Agenda, written by Nicole Ludden -
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About a dozen Republican senators are taking a three-day trip to D.C. for a “White House State Leadership Conference,” where they’ll hear “about President Trump’s America First Agenda and ways states can partner with the administration on shared policy priorities,” Senate Republican spokesperson Kim Quintero said.
Quintero said the conference itself is a single-afternoon event on June 16, but the trip is still planned over three days. Not to worry, “lawmakers remain committed to completing their work and passing a balanced budget before the June 30 constitutional deadline, as they’ve done every year,” she said.
Note: HHR refers to a hearing room in the House building; SHR refers to one in the Senate building.
Note2: Generally, I'll only specify bills that look to spread propaganda. Other bills may be more conventionally bad (think: corrupt or other misuses of public monies and/or authority). My recommendation is that if an agenda covers an area of interest to you, read the entire agenda.
Note3: Each chamber's respective Rules Committee meets on Monday, the House's in HHR4, generally at 1 p.m. and the Senate's in Senate Caucus Room 1, generally also at 1 p.m. Both committees serve as rubber stamps for bills leadership wants to be advanced and gatekeepers for measures that leadership wants stopped.
Note4: Meeting start times may be listed, but are flexible. Before journeying to the Capitol or viewing the meeting online, verify the start time.
Note5: Watch for strikers, or strike everything amendments. Those involve inserting language that replaces the entirety of a bill. Those can be introduced at any time and can make a previously harmless bill become a very bad one.
On Monday, 6/8 - Nada.
)n Tuesday, 6/9
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Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: no bills/ consideration of one executive nomination - Susan Wallace to the State Liquor Board.
On Wednesday, 6/10 and Thursday, 6/11 - Nada.
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