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unicameralism.
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MR. DELLA: I think, too, you have to recognize
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the value of the lobbyist. The legislators, and you will
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find this any time you have a new election, the legislators
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feel that they want to read all the bills and make their
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own decisions, and especially in the first year of their
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stay in the legislature, the lobbyist can't get to them
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except to talk to them, but you don't sway them one way
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or the other; but, towards the end of the session when they
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find the backlog of bills or the amount of bills intro-
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duced have been so great, that they cannot read them or
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understand some of them, and then they start to pick out
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the certain lobbyists that are familiar with that particu-
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lar field who they feel they can have confidence in giving
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them the facts they need to help make up their minds which
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way to vote.
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So, I don't see where unicameralism is going to
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make any difference as far as the work of the lobbyist or
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the importance of the lobbyist. I think a lot of it
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depends on the caliber of people who are elected into the
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legislature, as to what their understanding might be of
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