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By Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican A routine budget bill to pay staff salaries and fund other operations of a legislative session usually sails through both chambers of the Legislature when lawmakers reconvene in Santa Fe every year. Not this year, though. The so-called feed bill, the first piece of legislation considered […]
After a contentious, two-hour debate over what should go into the bill to fund 2021’s second special legislative session, the House voted 65 to 1 to approve the $1.6 million package. The new House Majority Floor leader, Democratic state Rep. Javier Martinez, of Albuquerque, introduced HB 1, known as the feed bill, which ensures that […]
A 2010 conference committee on dodd frank. and it's nothing more than a glorified press conference like the one on boarder security. one open session and everything else behind closed doors. >> think of the conference committee as a congressional mixer. add in digital frontiers, agents, walls, drones, fencing and dump them into a blender. hopefully when they mix everything together, the sides have a june need bill. this combo legislation is called a conference report. once approved in the conference committee, the house and it? take the conference report back to their respective bodies for ado...