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with regard to these issues, that many people introduce
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innumerable bills of which many of them do not have a
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chance to get through because of the tremendous amount
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of work involved and, I think, years ago when they used
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to have a minute amount of bills going into the legislature
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it makes a different picture than it does today when you
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have a flood such as last year in the Maryland General
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Assembly, of over 2, 000 bills. This year it is going to
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be another 2, 000 bills.
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It is impossible for the legislators to pursue
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them with any correct meaning of what they intend to do.
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THE CHAIRMAN: I don't want to pursue this
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discussion on the matter of lobbyists, and I would rather
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Mr. Kentner who is a native Nebraskan get into this, but
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I've gotten up there every now and then and I know the
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stories about the lobbyists that have kept Nebraska a so-
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called white state, not racial in connotation, but on maps
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that show states that have no sales tax or income tax.
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Nebraska is one of two in that category, and every time I
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get up there, in terms of appropriations that would go for
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education and more closely allied to those that operate in
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