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What he is saying is instead of having a constitutional

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amendment to change the length of term, the legislature

can do it, but effective only for the next term. You can

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never change the length of your current term.

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DELEGATE HANDEL: That might have some merit.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Do you want to comment on that?

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DELEGATE EMANUEL: Before you pass this sub-

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ject of the length of session, you seem to think it was

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unanimous or a great deal of sentiment was --

THE CHAIRMAN: Some consensus, not unanimous.

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DELEGATE EMANUEL: I would like to point out

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one thing for your consideration and that is this, if

we do run into a unicamcral legislature and we do stream-

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line our methods and we eliminate an awful lot of the

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waste of time that we do have, that it might very well

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be that a 70-day session could accomplish its purpose.

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There is a tendency, I think, on the part of all of us,

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when the Federal Government changed the filing date of

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income tax from March 15 to April 15, you wondered how

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did we do it by March 15, because people have the ten-

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dency to procrastinate to the last possible moment.