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  • Interview with Senator Givens

    In concluding the session I asked Senator Givens a couple questions on how he thought the session looked overall. 1. How did you first year go? Givens- I thouroughly enjoyed my first year and I felt like we had a productive session. I was extremely impressed by the LRC staff on how [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 2:19pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Committes Are Essential

    Committees play an important role in politics in the federal, state and local government. The role and stance a bill takes in a Committee affects its advancement of becoming law. In each General Assembly Session there is a specific goal that is set out to obtain and if the bills [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2009, 9:01pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Closing 2

    Even though this was a short legislative session a lot of important legislation was passed and pressing issues were taken care of and looked into more deeply.  One issue that I forgot to mention in my last blog that is incredibly important to the state financies and industries is HB [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2009, 8:59pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Paper Proposal- Committees

      April 17, 2009 Final Paper Proposal   Committees play an important role in politics in the federal, state and local government. What I intend to look at will concern the issues pertinent to this years General Assembly and how their role and stance in the committees affects their advancement into becoming a bill [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2009, 11:03pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Book Report #2- Committees

    Role of Committees and Their Members               Committees play an important role in the Legislative branch of the government. They allow for more detailed analysis of the bills that are proposed as well as create more positions of power. They allow every member to have some form of influence and input [...]
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    Posted: April 14, 2009, 3:04pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Closing

    This has been a fun and fast session there has been numberous things achomplished but also some things that werent accomplished. The 2009 session definately did not go out with a boom like the 2008 session. The House of Representatives created a new rule that they would not vote on [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Big Legislation!!

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    The second full week of session and already so much has happened. The alcohol and cigarette combined legislation passed through the Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee and was sent to the Orders of the Day. This controversial bill had an almost split vote being 9-7 for it. The majority of [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 2:23pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Winding down!!

    We are coming to the last few weeks of session and it has flown by. This week was slower than normal for Senator Givens I assume because all the major pieces of legislation have been voted on unlike last year when it was not till the last day when they [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 2:52pm EST
    by emelli6

  • I accidentally put this on the other blog and it was wrote in Janurary

    Back Again By emelli6 Frankfort is a place of wonders. After interning in the long session last year I knew that it was not the end for me in my interest in politics. The long session in Spring of ’08 taught me so much about the political system in general and Kentucky’s political [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 1:25am EST
    by emelli6

  • A Bill

    A Bill goes through a long process to become a law as we have seen in many “School House Rock Videos” as a young child. There are many obstacles that are not explicitly stated but simply inferred though traditional or a political norm. I have come to encounter this very [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 1:19am EST
    by emelli6

  • Go Interns!!!

    The Legislators are back into the swing of things again this past week. Senator David Givens schedule was constantly booked. As Ag committee chair he decides what bills he will hear and sponsors a number of them as well for instance in the Ag committee this past thursday he had [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2009, 3:05pm EST
    by emelli6

  • Representative Watkins and his counterpoints on Healthcare

    I also interviewed Democratic Representative David Watkins who is also a doctor. He said that something needs to be done about healthcare costs because there is a large number of people in poverty especially in the Eastern Kentucky area which causes there to be a lot of people on Medicaid [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2008, 3:10pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Politics Religion and Death

    This book is a memoir of his conquest to abolish the death penalty. One chapter of the book is devoted to the importance of committee chairs because the position of committee chairs can determine the fate of any bill that comes through the legislative process. When it was time for [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2008, 11:38am EDT
    by emelli6

  • the last day :(

    The last day of session was definitely the most eventful one. The General Assembly was suppose to meet at twelve but they didn’t start till a little after one. They only ended up voting on two bills and most of the time was taken up with citations and people being [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2008, 11:19am EDT
    by emelli6

  • PS 399 Internship Research Proposal

    Leadership is displayed in many forms and in many areas that affect of lives since we were children we would play follow the leader and other games such as Simon says that would teach us the importance and authority of leaders as well as how to act and become a [...]
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    Posted: April 11, 2008, 1:10pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Big Coal Review

    Coal the biggest natural resource in the state of KY. It can be viewed in two ways one as a way to advance economic growth or the second permitting economic growth for the people. During this semester I read the book Big Coal. The big themes of this book are [...]
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    Posted: April 08, 2008, 12:23am EDT
    by emelli6

  • Budget!!

    The last week of my internship was probably the most exciting because the budget had to be voted on and was debated on in the free conference committee. On Tuesday session didn’t meet till four because leadership for both parties in both chambers had stayed up till 8 in the [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2008, 1:45pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Rep DeWeese Perspective

    Over the past few weeks along with interning in Frankfort I have been working on a research paper. Rep DeWeese field of expertise is in Medical field and because he was so skilled in this area he had a lot of bills during this session that pertained to Medical issues. [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2008, 1:22pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • The Penny Miller Kentucky Politics review

    This book explains Kentucky’s Traditionalistic Culture and division and how this culture and division keeps us from moving forward. Kentucky first off has a personalistic culture where the politics are more political than ideological and it matters more about who the person is than what ideas and issues they stand [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2008, 1:41pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • It oinks!!!

    Tuesday was exciting because Representative DeWeese presented his tort reform bill HB 440 before the Senate Banking and Insurance committee.  To my surprise their was actually some serious concerns. One concern that was brought up was who was defined as the dependent. The other concern was physicians were the only [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2008, 10:17pm EDT
    by emelli6

  • Gaming!!!

    This past Tuesday was exciting in the House because the gaming bill HB 550 was voted on in the Elections, Constitutional Adm and Intergovernmental affairs committee and was not passed with Dottie Sims being the final swing vote to overrule the bill. The Democrats had split and a faction between [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2008, 6:15pm EST
    by emelli6

  • Lobbying??


    This week has been very hectic the actions in the General Assembly and the Committees are beginning to pick up. Appropriations and Revenue had a controversial bill posted, HB 427 dealing with the KLEEP program. The state police didnt like the wording that would make them abide by the [...]

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    Posted: February 22, 2008, 12:48am EST
    by emelli6

  • An Exciting Thursday


    This Tuesday was a big ordeal because the Legislators met in the old Capitol downtown in honor of Lincolns birthday. They only passed one resolution and the rest was ceremonial. Thursday was a huge day in Kentucky Politics because Governor Brashear proposed two bills to the General Assembly on [...]

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    Posted: February 15, 2008, 1:32pm EST
    by emelli6

  • The Week After, The Debates Begin


    The budget address on the 29th was vaguer than I expected it to be and the big gaming issue that the minority caucus of the House has been worried about wasnt brought up until the last few minutes. The thing that stuck out to me the most about his [...]

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    Posted: February 08, 2008, 1:25pm EST
    by emelli6

  • The Week Before the BIG Budget


    Tuesday started out later than usual as it became Monday because of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Tuesday the Fairness Alliance came to visit Rep. DeWeese for the third time bringing up the same issues and bills as before so after meeting with them I thoroughly looked up [...]

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    Posted: January 25, 2008, 4:51pm EST
    by emelli6

  • First Full Week as an intern


    I didnt know what to expect when I walked in the office last Thursday. I was told what was expected of me and then let loose. Tuesday began with going through mail and emails looking for constituents in Rep. DeWeeses area that we could reply back to. After doing [...]

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    Posted: January 18, 2008, 4:51pm EST
    by emelli6
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