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as to what type of role you see for the lobbyist.

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The other problem, of course, with the lobbyist

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is that with a unicameral legislature, the legislators are

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clearly responsible for what they do and the claim is made

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that with the publicity and the open procedures you get

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from a unicameral legislature, the lobbyist's role is

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exposed and so his role is thereby reduced. There again

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are assertions that have been. made both ways. Some people

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look at it and say it is not just the way at the present

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time.

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On Page 9, there is the reference to the fact

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that one of the arguments against unicameralism is that it

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is strange and it is unknown. It is pointed out that

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unicameral legislatures are very common in city governments

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People are quite familiar with them. They are quite famil-

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iar with a comparable system in corporations, where you

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don't have a bicameral director at the top and that is no

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longer something that is strange to the American people.

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THE CHAIRMAN: I might add that we are also

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familiar with the transition from a bicameral local legis-

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lative body to a unicameral. We in Baltimore changed in