[Release] 42 House Members Delay MAEP
[Verbatim Release] The 2007 Session of the Mississippi Legislature convened today (Tuesday, January 2, 2007). As promised by the House leadership, the Mississippi House of Representatives took up bills that call for full funding of the MAEP (House Bill 238) and funding for a 3% teacher pay raise. The House leadership had vowed to show that providing our children a quality education was their number one priority by passing out a full funding bill the first day of the session.
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[Opinion] Ledge Says It’s ‘Issues, Not Elections’
Noting that both the House and Senate are Democrat majorities, a C-L editorial spells out some challenges given that the House remains independent of the Governor while the Senate does not. Lame-duck Amy Tuck may or may not be “at the reins” of Governor Barbour, who has called for spending bills to be passed in March; House Speaker Billy McCoy (D-Rienzi) has to shore up his leadership position as he attempts to cram Mississippi Adequate Education Funding through.
The major money issue is education, with the House supporting full funding of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program and some wanting to spend less.
In the cauldron of competing interests, it’s anyone’s guess what lawmakers will produce after 90 days. But the test will be staying focused on issues not elections.
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[Web] House to Pass MAEP Today?
It’s the second day of the session and the House Republicans will, reportedly, not have a procedural block to fall back on against MAEP funding. MAEP may well pass the House today and head to the Senate. More as it develops…
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[News] A House In a Hurry
by Adam Lynch
Jan. 2, 2007
This story will appear in the print edition on Jan. 3.
Within hours of the Legislature convening on Jan. 2, the House Appropriations Committee approved a total of seven money bills seeking attention with little dissent. H.B. 238, a bill seeking to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program for more than $2.2 billion easily passed the committee, although Rep. Bill Denny, R-Jackson, complained that the budgetary figures for the session were not recent enough to be a reliable gauge upon which to base a vote. He added that other priorities such as the Department of Corrections and Medicaid needed more immediate attention.
?The people elected me to a $13 billion fiduciary,? Denny argued. ?Now how can I go out in the public and vote on one of these bills, and somebody says ?Bill, tell me about that MAEP,? and I say, ?Well, I don?t know anything about it. I walked into the chamber, it was hanging on the hoof, and we voted on it???
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