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Brett's Blog: 2015 Capitol Update Week 8 - Transportation and Brunch
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A promulgation of esoteric cogitations attempting to avoid platitudinous ponderousities regarding public policy, religion, politics, beer, and cigars - in no particular order. Sunday, March 8, 2015. 2015 Capitol Update Week 8 - Transportation and Brunch. HB 170 the Transportation Funding Act. The "big" bill this week was HB 170 the Transportation Funding Act. As a member of both the House Transportation. And Ways and Means. Committee voted to exclude it from the bill. After both floor amendments failed, ...
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Brett's Blog: January 2013
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A promulgation of esoteric cogitations attempting to avoid platitudinous ponderousities regarding public policy, religion, politics, beer, and cigars - in no particular order. Saturday, January 26, 2013. 2013 Capitol Update - Week 2 - Budget Hearings, Guns, Vintage Cars. The Governor’s proposal also includes $246 million in additional Medicaid funding and a proposal to permit the Department of Community Health to administer a Hospital Provider Fee to leverage federal dollars in this program. The state...
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Brett's Blog: May 2011
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A promulgation of esoteric cogitations attempting to avoid platitudinous ponderousities regarding public policy, religion, politics, beer, and cigars - in no particular order. Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Key bills passed this year:. I voted in support of each of these bills that passed and have been sent to the Governor for his signature. HB 78 the State Budget. Adopted and signed by the Governor at approximately $18.1 billion is less than the previous year and at about 2001 spending levels. HB 326, HOPE.
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Brett's Blog: 2015 Capitol Update Week 9 - Ten Yeas and Ten Nays
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A promulgation of esoteric cogitations attempting to avoid platitudinous ponderousities regarding public policy, religion, politics, beer, and cigars - in no particular order. Monday, March 16, 2015. 2015 Capitol Update Week 9 - Ten Yeas and Ten Nays. Ten Yeas and Ten Nays to recap Week 9 - Crossover Week. By my colleague Rep. Buzz Brockway's. Count, the House considered 119 bills last week including 57 on Friday - Crossover Day. Or give me a ring on my cell at 404-966-5804. I voted YES on these bills:.
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Brett's Blog: February 2014
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A promulgation of esoteric cogitations attempting to avoid platitudinous ponderousities regarding public policy, religion, politics, beer, and cigars - in no particular order. Sunday, February 23, 2014. Capitol Update Week 6 - Budget, Garbage, Guns. This week at the Capitol. This was an incredibly busy and interesting week at the Georgia General Assembly. I thank you so much for allowing me to serve as the representative for the 106th District. Here are several of the day-by-day highlights:. Homebrew Tra...
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Brett's Blog: January 2014
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A promulgation of esoteric cogitations attempting to avoid platitudinous ponderousities regarding public policy, religion, politics, beer, and cigars - in no particular order. Friday, January 31, 2014. Capitol Update - Week 3 - Start, stop, run. We started fast, we stopped, we raced to the weekend. Well, this was an interesting week at the Capitol to say the least. We started fast on Monday, came to a grinding halt on Wednesday, and accelerated again playing catch-up on Friday. To the Highway Safety Subc...
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Brett's Blog: July 2012
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A promulgation of esoteric cogitations attempting to avoid platitudinous ponderousities regarding public policy, religion, politics, beer, and cigars - in no particular order. Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Stormwater schemes appetite outpaces revenue. If you fail to buy health insurance – at least not yet. As anticipated at inception and suggested in my prior article on this subject, administrative costs are excessive, yet the City bureaucracy fails to efficiently execute the improvement program. More overhead,...
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Brett's Blog: November 2013
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A promulgation of esoteric cogitations attempting to avoid platitudinous ponderousities regarding public policy, religion, politics, beer, and cigars - in no particular order. Friday, November 15, 2013. County fees exceed county property taxes. Freedom is reduced; government grows stronger. I will continue making the case to remove these add-on fees from your property tax bills. In the meantime, you might support city and county candidates that are willing to do the same. No fees on my tax bill.
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Brett's Blog: January 2015
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A promulgation of esoteric cogitations attempting to avoid platitudinous ponderousities regarding public policy, religion, politics, beer, and cigars - in no particular order. Sunday, January 25, 2015. 2015 Capitol Update - Week 2 - Budget Preparations. Budget Week – Governor proposes $21.8 billion state budget. The Governor’s FY 16 budget proposes over one half billion dollars in new education spending. Chosen to Chair the Ad Valorem Tax Subcommittee of House Ways and Means. The Ad Valorem Tax Subcommit...
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