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A view of the Parliament House Building in New Delhi. File   | Photo Credit: PTI Rules were not amended as physical meetings resumed, when it was believed pandemic was on the decline The parliamentary panels cannot meet virtually till the necessary rules are amended by both Houses of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha secretariat said in reply to a letter written by Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday. The standing committees of Parliament, which are non-partisan platforms to analyse the functioning of the government, have not met since the onset of the second wave of the pandem...

PAYETTE COUNTY — One bill being fast-tracked on the Idaho Legislature’s docket could spell doom for a billboard presently located on the Highway 95 Business Loop in Payette and any similar ones throughout Idaho. Another four take aim at the Governor’s emergency declaration powers, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Those are just two examples of legislation that rushed through the pipelines this week as the Legislature went into a week-long recess Wednesday, in case of veto action, rather than adjourn sine die, as reported by MagicValley.com. This means the 2021 session will b...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Legislative committees cranked into high gear this week as each chamber pushed to have its bills heard before the May 13 crossover deadline, the date that bills must pass from one chamber to the other to remain eligible for the rest of the biennium. The next two weeks are expected to be very busy, with the fate of many bills yet to be decided. While the Senate continues to work on its budget proposal, it is somewhat limited in its decision-making because it has not agreed on spending targets with the House. The state has a large amo...

Sen. Andy Billig [D-Spokane] talks about the function of the legislative Rules Committees in Olympia. The Washington and Idaho legislatures are in the homestretches of their respective sessions. Lawmakers are working to finalize budgets and put the finishing touches on a variety of bills. In Washington, the Rules Committees [chaired in the Senate by Lt. Gov. Denny Heck, above] have an important role in determining which bills move on and which ones die. Today we get a Civics 101 lesson from Sen. Andy Billig [D-Spokane], a Rules Committee member.   Andy Billig: “I counted once and found the...

Steven Sund, the recently resigned Capitol Police chief, admitted that a “critical” FBI report issued about the potential for violence somehow didn’t make it to his desk.