Getting pumped over the budget

If you want to see someone who gets pumped about his job, look no further than Wesley Donehue over at the S.C. Senate Republican Caucus. I got this release from him a few minutes ago:

Members of the Press –

Happy Monday!  I hope you are ready for a fun week of super charged budget debate live from the South Carolina Senate Chamber.

The state budget will be reported from Finance Committee tomorrow and placed on the Calendar for Wednesday. You should expect the normal Senate schedule to change a bit throughout the week. In addition to budget debate, both the payday lending bill and the 10th Amendment bill are set for debate on special order slots.

Here are the other hot items popping up this week:

ON THE SENATE CALENDAR

Stimulus Resolution (S.577 – Leatherman); Adjourned Debate

Payday Lending (H.3301 – Harrell); Special Order, 2nd reading

10th Amendment Resolution (S.424 – Bright); Special Order

Dental Health Education Program (S.286 – Cleary); 3rd reading, uncontested

State Spending Limits (S.1 – McConnell); 2nd reading, McConnell objecting

Smoking in Cars (S.23 – Jackson); 2nd reading, L. Martin objecting

Fee moratorium (S.517 – Davis); 2nd reading, Lourie, Hutto objecting

Public Private Partnerships – DOT (S.521 – Grooms); 2nd reading, Hutto, Thomas objecting

Telecom Local Exchange Carriers (H.3299 – Sandifer); 2nd reading, uncontested

ESC Reform (S.391 – Ryberg); 2nd reading, Minority Report

24-hour Waiting Period for Abortions (H.3245 – Delleney); 2nd reading, Minority Report

SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Water Withdrawal (S.452 – Campbell) – Agriculture Subcommittee, Tuesday, 9 a.m.

“Kendra’s Law” (S.348 – Fair) – Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, 3 p.m.

Home Invasion Protection Act (S.153 – Campsen) – Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, 3 p.m.

Concealed Weapons on School Property (S.593 – S. Martin) – Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, 3 p.m.

SC Healthnet Program (S.455 – Thomas) – Banking & Insurance Committee, Wednesday, 9 a.m.

Education Opportunity Act –  (S.520 – Ford) – Education Subcommittee, Thursday, 9 a.m.

Public School Choice Program – (S.607 – Hayes) – Education Subcommittee, Thursday, 9 a.m.

Car Title Lending (S.111 – Malloy) – Banking & Insurance Subcommittee, Thursday, 9 a.m.

Have a wonderful week!

Thanks,

Wesley

I don’t know about y’all, but my eyes are open a little wider, and I’m just that much more excited about my week than I was a few moments ago…

9 thoughts on “Getting pumped over the budget”

  2. brad

    I think it’s the new Nullification thing, or something akin to it. I think it’s the Senate’s version of that, with somewhat different wording.

    By the way, remember how I live-blogged the other day about how tedious and unproductive watching the Senate can be. Right after I finished, the Senate outdid itself by setting the Nullification bill for special order. Poor Joel Lourie, who never wearies of trying to inject reason into our state’s agenda, asked whether there weren’t other matters that were a tad more important than our state humiliating itself by re-enacting our antebellum foolishness. The answer he got was a big, “Hell, no!” The vote to vault nullification, or state sovereignty, or whatever it is ahead of actual serious legislation was something like 35-5. You know, like the Constitution didn’t already have that covered.

  3. michaelrodgers

    Yes, Brad, that’s exactly what it is. For more info, this interview of Sen. Brad Hutto on Frank Knapp’s April 15th show is excellent.

    I discussed the “Tea Party” and the “Sovereignty” resolution over at indigo journal in the post, “Secession Ain’t Patriotic.”.

  5. Birch Barlow

    By the way, remember how I live-blogged the other day about how tedious and unproductive watching the Senate can be. Right after I finished, the Senate outdid itself by setting the Nullification bill for special order. Poor Joel Lourie, who never wearies of trying to inject reason into our state’s agenda, asked whether there weren’t other matters that were a tad more important than our state humiliating itself by re-enacting our antebellum foolishness.

    God help us if this antebellum nonsense spreads to other more reasonable states.

    Oh no, we’re doomed!

  6. brad

    Oh, yeah; this craziness is going on in other states: Legislators just going out of their way to assert points that are fully covered by the 10th Amendment.

    But you know South Carolina. If there’s any chance that it could lead to secession, we want to put the matter on special order so we can go FIRST.

  7. Birch Barlow

    But you know South Carolina. If there’s any chance that it could lead to secession, we want to put the matter on special order so we can go FIRST.

    South Carolina – we may be last where it counts, but we’re first in something! Although, in this case it seems Texas may be trying to jump to the front of the line.

    In all seriousness, I don’t think the 10th Amendment Bill is all that important either, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Besides, our state legislature will probably waste more time in a day going to lunch and then twittering about it than they will with this bill.

  9. SCnative

    USC and other government agencies have a way of providing a safety net for those in the private sector who defend waste and dubvious projects. USC has plenty of those.

    USC hired that cub reporter, Wiggins, and turned him into a professor of journalism.

    Since the semester is almost over, I wonder what Brad Warthen will be doing to earn our tax dollars?

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