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other ones was growing out of this whole discussion here.

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I think it is not a change from the substance of the

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Committee or of the expectation of the Committee of the

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Whole.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Hanson.

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DELEGATE HANSON: I would probably agree that it

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is not a change from the intention of the Committee, but

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it seems to me it is indeed a substantive change.

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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: I think it is not. For

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example, if it happened on the 140th day it would be

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difficult for them to extend the session beyond 150. It is

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easy enough to extend beyond the ninety days.

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DELEGATE HANSON: May I state what bothers me

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about this is Delegate Penniman's response to it. In

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Section 3.15 we provide that the General Assembly may

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extend its regular session. It seems to me that if we

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write this here as the 80th day we have two inconsistencies,

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the one possibly which I was suggesting earlier, but a

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second and perhaps more serious one when viewed in the

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light of 3.15 in that we are creating here a new way in

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which the length of the General Assembly may be extended.