{"id":1322,"date":"2007-02-27T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/senate-again-kills-conference-committee-proposal\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T23:33:00","slug":"senate-again-kills-conference-committee-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/senate-again-kills-conference-committee-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate again kills conference committee proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Senate has just voted to kill another proposal to open legislative conference committees to the public. <\/p>\n

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On a vote of 20-21, Senate Bill 322<\/a>, sponsored by Joe Carraro<\/a>, R-Albuquerque, died.<\/p>\n

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The resolution came after a bizarre afternoon in which the Senate at first passed the bill on a vote of 19-18 with Sen. Mary Kay Papen<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, voting in favor of it, Kate Nash of the Albuquerque Tribune<\/a> reported. Papen then made a motion to reconsider the proposal, which passed 21-20.<\/p>\n

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Following more than an hour of debate after that, Papen and 20 others voted to kill Carraro\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Carraro\u2019s bill was different than another proposal that was killed by the Senate earlier this month on a vote of 20-19 in that it specified that the public could be present but could not participate in conference committees, and that political parties would have proportional representation on committees.<\/p>\n

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Sen. Nancy Rodriguez<\/a>, D-Santa Fe, who voted against a similar proposal two weeks ago, voted for Carraro\u2019s today. She told Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a> that was because the previous bill didn\u2019t address issues about confidentiality, but her questions have since been answered.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have no problem with open meetings,\u201d Terrell quoted her as saying.<\/p>\n

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Sens. John Pinto<\/a>, D-Tohatchi, and David Ulibarri<\/a>, D-Grants, voted to open conference committees two weeks ago, but switched sides and voted to kill the proposal this time.<\/p>\n

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Sen. Linda Lopez<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, was the only member absent.<\/p>\n

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The Senate might have to take up the issue a third time this session, if House Bill 297<\/a>, sponsored by State Rep. Joseph Cervantes<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, or House Concurrent Resolution 1<\/a>, sponsored by Majority Leader Ken Martinez<\/a> of Grants, is approved by the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate has just voted to kill another proposal to open legislative conference committees to the public. On a vote of 20-21, Senate Bill 322, sponsored by Joe Carraro, R-Albuquerque, died. The resolution came after a bizarre afternoon in which the Senate at first passed the bill on a vote of 19-18 with Sen. Mary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}