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MR. BOND: Thank you very much. One more
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question.
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MR. RENNIE: Let me put one more thought in.
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This provision in here might hinder some good legislation,
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but it stops an awful lot of bad legislation, believe me,
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MR. BOND: Well, it's very important for us to
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hear this, I feel. Can we do away with Sub-Section 12,
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which calls for a public hearing by the Governor on the
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budget items before the budget is presented?
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MR. RENNIE: Well, this was done, in any
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experience, once. Herbert O'Connor during his term, and
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I believe — no, it wasn't the budget. At one time he
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had public hearings in the House Chamber in Annapolis on
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the budget and invited the department heads down there to
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explain the budgets and invited the general public to
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attend those hearings.
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As far as the general public was concerned, there
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was so little interest in it, that it has never been done
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since.
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DR. JENKINS: He would still have the freedom
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to do this, if this section weren 't in here.
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