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The Chair recognizes Delegate Gallagher for the
purpose of making a statement with respect to Section 5.17.
Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Committee of the Whole, the Committee on
the Legislative Branch has met and has considered in detail
and, sentence by sentence, the language of Section 5.17, '
titled. Journal and Passage of Bills, and I an directed to ;
say "
THE CHAIRMAN: Just a second.
Delegate Penniman, may I call your attention
to this announcement? It will have a bearing on the '
decisions of the Committee on Style.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chairman, I am directed
to say that I am in a motion to state the interpretation
and intention which the Legislative Branch Committee
intended shall be made with respect to each of these
sentences, which I will now take seriatim.
Each House of the General Assembly shall keep a
current daily journal '.'". its proceedings, which shall be
open to public inspection at all reasonable times, and a