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we are creating a kind of peculiar problem, I am afraid.

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THE PRESIDENT: I take it that what you are

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saying is that the way it was before, if the section had

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been extended by the General Assembly to the full extent

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of 150 days and they had not enacted the bill by the 140th

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day then the Governor not only had the power that he has

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under other sections to extend, but he was mandated to

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extend the session here for at least twenty days, is that

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correct, Delegate Hanson?

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DELEGATE HANSON: That is correct, or up to

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twenty days.

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THE PRESIDENT: In light of the colloquy that

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occurred before in the Committee of the Whole that what the

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Committee on Style has done is probably in conformity with

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what the Committee of the Whole intended. I think you are

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proper to call the matter to the attention of the Assembly.

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Is Delegate Gallagher here? I would like to

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confirm, Delegate Gallagher, whether the Chair is correct

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in his recollection of the discussion in the Committee of

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the Whole or if there was no such discussion whether it was

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the intention of the Committee on the Legislative Branch.