An eighth-grader in civics class knows that a bill cannot become law unless the identical bill passes the House and Senate and is signed by the president. |
He's like Huey Long with religion. |
If my lawsuit succeeds the entire act will be declared unconstitutionally enacted. |
If we keep listing them (impaired waters) at the rate we're listing them, and the funding for doing the work doesn't change, and the amount of people out there doing the work doesn't change, we're going to have a backlog. I'm already concerned about the amount we have on the list. |
It can be a watershed district, it can be a school district, it could be another state agency. Just about anybody, if we have good samples, can submit data and we would use the data for this program. So when we talk about who's contributing, it's a really wide range of folks that are doing that. |
OK then, Dwayne. Come on back sometime. |
Okay then, Dwayne. Come on back sometime. We'll let you park here and you can go to a couple of games. |
This is Constitutional Law 101. The same bill must pass the House and the Senate and then be signed by the president. Case over. |
We're putting together possibly a preliminary injunction to ask the judge to enjoin the effective date of the law. And we're studying that right now. I've had four inquiries from other states about joining this suit or filing a separate lawsuit in coordinating efforts. |