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GOVERNOR TAWES: No, I really don't, I really
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don't.
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JUDGE ADKINS: Does the six-day period give
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you sufficient time to consider whether or not to veto a
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bill?
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GOVERNOR TAWES: Under the present system, it
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does.
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JUDGE ADKINS: Do you feel that --
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GOVERNOR TAWES: Let me amplify that just a
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minute. You see, when the bill is sent to us, that's not
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the beginning of the six-day period. From the Legislature
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we send it to the Attorney General's office. Every piece
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of legislation is sent to the Attorney General's office
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for their — for the Attorney General's office to study
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the legislation us to constitutionality, legal sufficiency
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and so on. Now, when we receive that legislation back,
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he may have the bill for, well, two or three days, he may
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have it a week before they get around to giving it to us.
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How, this six-day period doesn't begin until when that
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bill is returned.
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JUDGE ATKINS: From the Attorney General's
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office. by that time, of course, the administrative
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