By a vote of 32-1, the Senate passed HCR5. HCR5 passed the House on Monday by a vote of 129-31. The bill disapproves of the Missouri Citizens’ Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials salary recommendations. From what i’ve noticed, passing or considering such a disapproval is a relatively new tradition to start off sessions of the General Assembly.
But, Laptop computers may invade the Missouri Senate this session. So we’ll keep an eye on those developments.
regarding the anti-laptop arguments
The body is elected by people whose salary is lower than the amount of money they spent to win that office. Let’s pretend that the Missouri Senate is a sanctuary for traditional old-timey legislating. There is a lot of peculiar Senate quirks and that’s not being threatened.
“Huffman family worried that leaving carrots out may tempt ants, overlooks that they’ve spilled Coke all over the floor”
Then don’t allow for the usage of Instant messenging programs on computers that are connected to the Superspecial-secured Chamber WiFi.