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what Delegate Scanlan calls a platitude.

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DELEGATE JAMES: Delegate Sherbow.

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DELEGATE SHERBOW. I will ask the Chair to rule

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whether this is debate or questions for clarification.

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We stay here until 8 or 10 or 11 o'clock at night too

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much. Too much of the time is spent in debate when it is

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supposed to be for clarification. That is why we are here

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until 8 or 9 o'clock at night. (Applause)

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DELEGATE JAMES: The gentleman i9 correct. This

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is strictly a questipn period.

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Delegate Dukes.

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DELEGATE DUKES. Delegate Willoner, both Judge

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Dorsey and I would like to know whether judicial conferences

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would be a public meeting unless covered by statute.

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DELEGATE WILLONER: No. That is why the word

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"proceeding" is used, because that is a word that has

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a judicial history of formal court proceeding. Regardless

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of what the legislature did -- the legislature could open

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up those proceedings, this provision would not. Although

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I would like to know what goes on in judicial conferences.

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DELEGATE JAMES : Delegate Hopkins.