It's time to end last-minute madness
The Legislature begins its 2010 session in three months. If things go as they have in past years, by late May a few powerful lobbyists will be stalking the Capitol corridors, slipping obscure and often costly paragraphs into legislation that no one will have time to read.
Here are some recent examples of obscure, late-session legislation that became law:
In 2006, last-minute legislation handed millions in additional tra...
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