House votes to adjourn special session!
The House has voted to adjourn the special session without taking up coal-to-liquid or any other issue. There seems to be some debate over the constitutionality of the House alone adjourning the session, but for the time being it seems we can take a moment to catch our breath from all the work we've been doing around coal-to-liquid. Thanks for everyone who helped us shut down this special interest session.
We'll post more updates on the session as they come in.
From Pol Watchers:
UPDATE 5:45 p.m.: The House of Representatives adjourned at 5:35 p.m. until noon on Jan. 8, 2008. The adjournment was done by voice vote, although the chamber did take a roll call vote on a concurrent resolution that would officially adjourn the entire special session if approved by the Senate. That measure passed 56-34, largely along party lines.
House Speaker Jody Richards stepped off the speaker's platform to give a rare address from the chamber floor to explain why the House is packing up rather than working on the 67 items Gov. Ernie Fletcher asked the legislature to consider in special session.
"I take the unusual step of rising to address this body on a simple but important question: has the governor justified calling the General Assembly into special session at a cost of $60,000 per day to the Kentucky taxpayer?" he asked rhetorically. "Anyone who has followed events since the governor first threatened to call a special session knows that the answer to this question is a clear, resounding and unequivocal, 'No.'"
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