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-- 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...

All right. so remember how fracking works. they drill a deep hole and then pump in a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals at a pressure so intense it actually cracks the rock deep underground. and among the chief concerns about fracking, besides its tendency to appear to cause earthquakes, is the potential health hazard posed by fracking fluid. well, there's now a bill in north carolina that makes it a crime to disclose what's in that stuff. a crime. if you say, well, it's x parts water and x parts hydrochloric acid and so on, you will have committed a crime in north carolina if this bill is ...

-- 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...

Against democratic incumbent kay hagan. while tillis was out casting votes this week, protesters with the moral monday movement were being arrested in his office after republicans vote ford new capitol rules on where all those meddlesome protesters are allowed to bather and what they're allowed to do. and like many fracking advocates, tillis says the safety of those fracking fluids is a non-issue. >> i'm very optimistic that we're talking with innovation, we're talking about, you know, future chemicals in the not too distant future that are safe, they're even saying food grade. >> tillis, howe...

>> if the fracking fluid is so safe, one must ask, why would they pass a bill like this to make it a crime to disclose what's in it? >> right. well, apparently, some of this has roots in alec, model legislation. >> i'm sorry, say it again. >> some of these disclosure components have roots in alec model legislation. >> the american legislation education council which kornts model legislation in he various states across the country. >> right. and apparently they were involved in that at the commission level, the mining commission level which was drafting the rules. but the legislature ultimately...