HB288-FN Killington, NH

[Russell Kanning]

I just got an update from the generalcourt.org site, but I don't understand the verbage. It says it "Passed (Cons Cal by nec 2/3). What does that mean exactly?

link to website
Hopefully that will work for you.

It would be great news if we can get this Killington to NH ball rolling.

[AlanM]

I THINK it means it was passed by a Consensus Voice Vote.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I, of course, am new to paying attention to the making and passing of laws.  I don't understand why there isn't one one of those box thingy's with a yea & nea bulb for each representative and they press a button to record their vote and then the vote is recorded, like, in the 'congressional record'.
How are we going to keep track of how these people vote if a measure is passed by how loud the murmur is in the room?
Lloyd

[Russell Kanning]

Yea .....if it is being voted on by the whole room, why not have a recording system for everything.
We know how the committee voted.....unanimously.

[cathleeninnh]

I imagine it is alot easier to say yea once and have the entire consent calendar( and all of it's ITL's and OTP's) agreed with at once. Only those pulled off the consent calendar get an individual vote.

Cathleen

[Russell Kanning]

Even if they go in batches, they could still count them for us.

[cathleeninnh]

When the consent calendar gets voted on, why would there be any nay votes? What good is a count? When something good gets killed this way(ITL), it just goes to show that no one was willing to fight for a bill by pulling it out for individual vote. That tells you something right there. True, not enough, because we don't know who was in the room, leaving wiggle room for the reps.

Cathleen

[Russell Kanning]

They wrote down peoples votes in the committee meetings, when it seemed important.