1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21

Constitution, which we will note for brevity and which we
certainly here have not in any manner succeeded in fol-
lowing, says, each house shall keep a journal of its
proceedings and from time to time publish the same,
excepting such parts as in their judgment require
secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the members of either
house on any question are at the desire of one-fifth of
those present to be entered on the journal; so there is
no requirement really for entry of the journal in the
record of the full house of the Federal Congress.
The Federal Congress, of course, has unlimited
functions, which is an area where money means nothing,
because it is the general philosophy that you do what
you have to and worry about it later, and they provide
a very expensive type of journal.
This will cost the taxpayers of Maryland
something in the neighborhood of $100,000 a year. It is
a gigantic proposition, which requires not only the
taking of notes, but checking out, proofing and all that
sort of thing and it is not worth anything unless you do
the necessary checking to make certain that it is accurate.