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Republican 90% 2% 6% 43 total votes

Democrat 13% 81% 4% 65 total votes

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1) Re: 2009 House Bill 4961 (Establish regulatory framework for private toll roads )  by Judy on December 3, 2010 

Senator Kahn’s statement is as follows:

I appreciate the good Senator from the 8th District’s passion for this subject. He and the chamber need to recognize that a last-minute substitute on the last day of session without a hearing and without members having an opportunity to examine it is bad precedent for legislation, particularly of this magnitude. That ignores all the inherent weaknesses of the entire concept. There is no way that something of this manner should be voted for. I urge that it be rejected.

2) Re: 2009 House Bill 4961 (Establish regulatory framework for private toll roads )  by Judy on December 3, 2010 

Senator Basham’s second statement is as follows:

I would like to speak to the comments made by my good colleague and friend across the aisle. On a previous legislative day, I made a comment about never wanting to rush an undertaker. I think today it is time to start the undertaker to do, in fact, what he is sent up here to do and support his colleague across the aisle. We have worked on this legislation bipartisanly, and we do have a substitute bill for the House bill that addresses all those concerns that he mentioned. If we have a chance to have up-or-down votes on this legislation and add the substitute language that he had done with members who had concern with this legislation; if we are allowed to add that to the House bill, this would complete a process that has been worked on for many years with his office.

I would ask him to think about working across the aisle just a little bit more and that we actually rush this job and put people back to work.

3) Re: 2009 House Bill 4961 (Establish regulatory framework for private toll roads )  by Judy on December 3, 2010 

Senator Gilbert’s statement is as follows:

This discharge motion kind of reminds me of a dog chasing a car. What is he going to do when he gets a hold of it? This bill is not ready to go. This House bill was not DRIC-specific. It creates P3s in all kinds of different circumstances. We never vetted the whole P3 process. All during that 10 hours of testimony, we talked about DRIC. It does not protect the taxpayer, and after 10 hours of testimony, it was clear that this bill was not ready to go. Any other work we have done on it since, I do believe there is more work to do. This is too big to rush, and I urge you to vote “no” on the discharge.

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