Freshman Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, just knocked the puppy mill bill off the local calendar, saying he'd like to see a full floor debate on the general state calendar - which allows for a lot of debate, whereas the bill on the local calendar usually flies through and can't have amendments.
Rep. Senfronia Thompson brought her puppy mill bill back up to the floor after a delay, Simpson was planning to raise his point of order again - saying that the bill analysis didn't measure up.
Thompson asked to recommit the bill to committee, which is typically what is done to fix points of orders like that. I've never seen someone not agree to that, but Simpson - a freshman who has no context and, apparently, no one telling him how to play nice - was being stubborn about it.
He apparently got schooled on the unspoken rules, because he eventually withdrew his point of order, announced his intent to talk it off the local calendar for 10 minutes, then didn't object when Thompson sent it back to committee to inoculate it against further points of order.
And .... People are barking. I suppose this joke only gets old for the 3/4 of the chamber who aren't freshmen.
Wait, it doesn't seem to get old for them, either.
Standing by....
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/04/and-were-back-on-puppy-mills.html
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