Fracking Bill News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

You can drink it. you just can't say what's in it. joining me now is north carolina state representative pricey harrison. representative harrison, how did this bill come about? who's pushing this bill? >> it's hard know because there wasn't a lot of transparency. it sailed through the senate with two unnoticed committee meetings and then to the senate floor and then it came to the house with to unnoticed committee meetings and then went to the floor without any public notice. so it's difficult to know who was pushing it, but it does seem to be a republican priority. >> what do you mean by un...

State representative pricey harrison. representative harrison, how did this bill come about? who's pushing this bill? >> it's hard know because there wasn't a lot of transparency. it sailed through the senate with two unnoticed committee meetings and then to the senate floor and then it came to the house with to unnoticed committee meetings and then went to the floor without any public notice. so it's difficult to know who was pushing it, but it does seem to be a republican priority. >> what do you mean by unnoticed? when you say unnoticed committee hearings. >> when you issue a notice you're ...

-- normally you don't vote on the bill in committee and send it straight to the floor, especially a bill as controversial as a fracking bill, and that's what happened yesterday. straight from finance to the floor. the process was bad, and the substance was horrible. >> the substance also -- it's unclear to me that it is even constitutional under the first amendment. i mean, we're at the case that say one of our producers or i or one of my colleagues were to find out what's in the fluid and publish it in the newspaper, it seems to me there's a pretty strong first amendment claim that they canno...

-- normally you don't vote on the bill in committee and send it straight to the floor, especially a bill as controversial as a fracking bill, and that's what happened yesterday. straight from finance to the floor. the process was bad, and the substance was horrible. >> the substance also -- it's unclear to me that it is even constitutional under the first amendment. i mean, we're at the case that say one of our producers or i or one of my colleagues were to find out what's in the fluid and publish it in the newspaper, it seems to me there's a pretty strong first amendment claim that they can...

It -- normally you don't vote on the bill in committee and send it straight to the floor, especially a bill as controversial as a fracking bill, and that's what happened yesterday. straight from finance to the floor. the process was bad, and the substance was horrible. >> the substance also -- it's unclear to me that it is even constitutional under the first amendment. i mean, we're at the case that say one of our producers or i or one of my colleagues were to find out what's in the fluid and publish it in the newspaper, it seems to me there's a pretty strong first amendment claim that they ca...