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session, then I am afraid a lot of innocent people are qoin(
to qet hurt, and you are qoinq to deny to the State a numbe;
of Qualified and decently respectable people who
will refuse to havetheir names submitted to the Senate to
be confirmed if it is qoinq to be in the open.
When the Committee as a whole refuses to qo alone
with a nominee, we then ask the qovernor to withdraw the
name. and there is no vote taken in public, no one knows
what the vote is as a committee of the whole.
So, Deleqate Sherbow, I think you are hurtincr
the individuals that may be State officers.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delecrate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: I am afraid we have qotten
from what we really are talkinq about. All that this says
is that a vote shall be taken only in public session.
If the rules of the House and Senate provide
for the Senate, for example, in executive sessionthat the
debate be in secret, so be it- but the vote, and this is
what we are talkinq about, if the vote is on a bill. if
it is on a resolution, if it is on the election of an
officer, if it is on confirmation, the vote is all that we