{"id":12756,"date":"2010-02-08T21:49:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=12756"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:04:54","slug":"when-will-senate-rules-hear-webcasting-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/when-will-senate-rules-hear-webcasting-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"When will Senate Rules hear webcasting bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10091\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10091\" title=\"Webcam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Webcam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kevin Steinhardt\/flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two pieces of legislation that would expand webcasting in the Senate have been awaiting \u2013 but not yet receiving \u2013 hearings in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/committeedisplay.aspx?CommitteeCode=SRC\">Senate Rules Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, neither <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?chamber=S&amp;legtype=R&amp;legno=%20%20%201&amp;year=10\">Senate Resolution 1<\/a>, sponsored by Majority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SSANC\">Michael Sanchez<\/a>, D-Belen, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?chamber=S&amp;legtype=R&amp;legno=%20%20%204&amp;year=10\">Senate Resolution 4<\/a>, sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SGRIR\">Eric Griego<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, has yet to appear on the committee\u2019s ongoing calendar \u2013 and two-thirds of the session has already passed.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a third piece of legislation that would expand webcasting \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?chamber=H&amp;legtype=JM&amp;legno=%20%2015&amp;year=10\">House Joint Memorial 15<\/a>, sponsored by Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HSTEI\">Jeff Steinborn<\/a>, D-Las Cruces \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/house-oks-interim-committee-webcasting\/\">passed the House<\/a> today and is also headed for the Senate Rules Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Griego, whose bill would expand audio and video webcasting to include Senate committee meetings held during sessions, said he hopes Rules Chair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SLOPE\">Linda Lopez<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, schedules a hearing on his legislation soon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12757\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12757\" title=\"Lopez, Linda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Lopez-Linda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Lopez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe public has a right to see how decisions are made up here. Webcasting committees in both houses is crucial to our transparency efforts,\u201d Griego said. \u201cI hope the Senate version of the bill is given a fair hearing soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A resolution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/01\/house-deserves-praise-for-increasing-transparency\/\">similar to Griego\u2019s<\/a>, also sponsored by Steinborn, passed the House earlier this month, and official webcasting of House committees has already begun.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez\u2019s bill would expand video webcasting from the Senate floor to include multiple cameras instead of the one that\u2019s currently used. And Steinborn\u2019s joint memorial would expand webcasting to include interim committee meetings.<\/p>\n<p>I sent Lopez a message to ask when the bills will be scheduled for hearings. You\u2019ll know if I get a response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, Feb. 9, 8:05 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of this morning, Sanchez\u2019s resolution has appeared, for the first time, far down on the list of bills waiting to be heard by the committee. Griego\u2019s isn\u2019t yet on the list. Neither is Steinborn\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, bills far down on the list usually don\u2019t get heard for days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: Two pieces of legislation that would expand webcasting in the Senate have been awaiting \u2013 but not yet receiving \u2013 hearings in the Senate Rules Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[111,107],"class_list":["post-12756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-open-government","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}