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appropriation bills, but you're just opening up the pork
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barrel, taking the lid off it, and under the other provision
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in here, if the Governor doesn't act on the bill, if it is
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voted on and sent up to him, I don't know what the exact
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time is, if he doesn't act on it, either reject it or approv
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it, then it comes back to the legislature and they can pass
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it over his veto. Even if he vetoes it, they still have
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time to do whatever they can.
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Now, if you get too much time in here and special
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interests want to get a particular bill through, and they
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have got time to do it, why they can pass anything they want
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through there in the way of an appropriation bill.
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THE CHAIRMAN: I think this provision, Cal --
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MR. RENNIE: This provision was very well thought
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out and served well over the years, as to the bonus bills
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and --
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THE CHAIRMAN: That's it. This provision saved
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the State from having a veterans bonus today.
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MR. RENNIE: Now, the Cooper Hughes was a very
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unusual thing. Anybody that lived with that thing — I
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don't think having thirty more days would have gotten the
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