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What’s Happening (OSCC Political Observations)
This past Wednesday, Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives reached an agreement that put an end to the full reading of all bills being voted on in the House chamber. This is key, because it will speed up the process and allow House Bills to get over to the Senate side in a timely way. In this particular session, this tactic was especially effective in slowing the pace of the session.
In exchange for Republicans dropping the requirement that all bills be read in full, Democrats agreed to add a Republican to the redistricting committee to give each party the same number of members on the committee that is charged with redrawing Oregon’s Congressional districts and House and Senate legislative districts.
In addition, Republicans were given greater input in the process of distributing $780 million of American Rescue Plan Act dollars. Though they have declined to require bill readings thus far, Senate Republicans were not subject to the agreement.
This week’s committee agenda is very light, as many committees did not schedule this week in anticipation of spending most of the week on the floor voting for the bills that have piled up.
Some of the big remaining issues of consequence to the business community include:
Budget Hearings
One final issue of note – the Legislature will resume its statewide budget hearings this week.
All Chambers interested in supporting ARPA funds for community projects need to make sure your community is represented in the following hearings this week:
Congressional District 3
Wednesday, April 21, 5:30 pm
Register to testify here: https://survey.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4PGQ17iFvpyxnPo
Congressional District 4
Thursday, April 22, 5:30 pm
Register to testify here: https://survey.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9EJCb3HDLD9DYi2
Congressional District 5
Saturday, April 24, 1:00 pm
Register to testify here: https://survey.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eJT6e1ZhpsjQyrA
Our observation of these hearings is that the committee will allow about 3 hours worth of testimony and will generally limit testimony to 2 minutes per person.
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