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to get into the position of seniority or get into the
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position of power and they are going to stay there and
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eventually you will have a seniority system, which we
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do not have in the legislature now and I just don't
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think the seniority system serves any purpose.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Let me ask you this, because
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this came up in our committee meetings — and inciden-
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tally, Dr. Mitchener, you may want to get into this
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part. Do you find it difficult to reconstitute your-
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self because there is no staggering system in each
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case, that is, there isn't enough of a body to build
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in the passage of --
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DELEGATE HANDEL: No.
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SENATOR JAMES: No.
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THE CHAIRMAN: You don't think that is true?
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MR. ENEY: What, by and large, in the past
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twenty or thirty years has been the carry-over, per-
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centagewise?
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SENATOR JAMES: I'd say about half. It may
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be a little more this time.
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SENATOR HUGHES: Normally. It may be more
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